Delta-band Activity Underlies Referential Meaning Representation during Pronoun Resolution

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02163" target="_blank" >10.1162/jocn_a_02163</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Delta-band Activity Underlies Referential Meaning Representation during Pronoun Resolution

Original language description

Human language offers a variety of ways to create meaning, one of which is referring to entities, objects, or events in the world. One such meaning maker is understanding to whom or to what a pronoun in a discourse refers to. To understand a pronoun, the brain must access matching entities or concepts that have been encoded in memory from previous linguistic context. Models of language processing propose that internally stored linguistic concepts, accessed via exogenous cues such as phonological input of a word, are represented as (a)synchro-nous activities across a population of neurons active at specific frequency bands. Converging evidence suggests that delta band activity (1–3 Hz) is involved in temporal and representational integration during sentence processing. Moreover, recent advances in the neurobiology of memory suggest that recollection engages neural dynamics similar to those which occurred during memory encoding. Integrating from these two research lines, we here tested the hypothesis that neural dynamic patterns, especially in delta frequency range, underlying referential meaning representation, would be reinstated during pronoun resolution. By leveraging neural decoding techniques (i.e., representational similarity analysis) on a magnetoencephalogram data set acquired during a naturalistic story-listening task, we provide evidence that delta-band activity underlies referential meaning representation. Our findings suggest that, during spoken language comprehension, endogenous linguistic representations such as referential concepts may be proactively retrieved and represented via activation of their underlying dynamic neural patterns. © 2024 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

ISSN

0898-929X

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Volume of the periodical

36

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

1472-1492

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85196326502