Paper
Authors: Shohini Bhattasali (Cornell University) , John Hale (Cornell University) , Christophe Pallier (INSERM-CEA) , Jonathan Brennan (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor) , Wen-Ming Luh (Cornell University) , R. Nathan Spreng (McGill University)
On some level, human sentence comprehension must involve both memory retrieval and structural composition. This study differentiates these two processes using neuroimaging data collected during naturalistic listening. Retrieval is formalized in terms of "multiword expressions" while structure-building is formalized in terms of bottom-up parsing. The results most strongly implicate Anterior Temporal regions for structure-building and Precuneus Cortex for memory retrieval.
Keywords: parsing, memory, structure, mwe, brain, fmri, neuroimaging, computational, linguistics
How to Cite: Bhattasali, S. , Hale, J. , Pallier, C. , Brennan, J. , Luh, W. & Spreng, R. (2018) “Differentiating Phrase Structure Parsing and Memory Retrieval in the Brain”, Society for Computation in Linguistics. 1(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/R5FF3QJ2