The influence semantics on syntactic analysis: fMRI study

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案的目标是检查语义对句法分析的影响。实验描述使用行为测量和功能磁共振成像（fMRI）检查句子理解过程中语义和句法处理之间的相互作用。该提案有两个主要目的。首先是更好地理解高度熟悉的世界知识如何影响句子理解过程。第二个目标是确定句法处理的哪些方面受到语义的影响。最近，有人提出，句法处理发生在至少两个阶段，它可能是语义信息只影响一个阶段。两者合计，拟议的研究旨在揭示语义和句法处理的一些关键方面，以及提供这两个基本的语言过程的协作性质的更好的理解。所提出的实验使用新颖的实验设计，以提供不仅是一个更清晰的描述的行为处理，但也支持语言的底层神经结构。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this proposal is to examine the impact of semantics on syntactic analysis. The experiments described use both behavioral measures and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the interaction between semantic and syntactic processing during sentence comprehension. There are two major aims of the proposal. The first is to obtain a better understanding of how highly familiar, world knowledge influences sentence comprehension processes. The second aim is to determine what aspects of syntactic processing are influenced by semantics. Recently, it has been proposed that syntactic processing occurs in at least two stages and it may be that semantic information has an impact on only one stage. Taken together, the proposed studies are designed to uncover some of the key aspects of semantic and syntactic processing as well as provide a greater understanding of the collaborative nature of these two essential language processes. The proposed experiments use novel experimental designs in order to provide not only a clearer depiction of the behavioral processing but also the underlying neural architecture that supports language.