Establishing propositional truth-value in counterfactual and real-world contexts during sentence comprehension: Differential sensitivity of the left and right inferior frontal gyri

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3433-3440

  Nieuwland, Mante S ^a  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

Author keywords

Counterfactuals; FMRI; Language comprehension; LIFG; Propositional truth value; Real world knowledge; RIFG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE;

COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855181753     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.11.018     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Badre D., Wagner A.D. Semantic retrieval, mnemonic control, and prefrontal cortex. Behav. Cogn. Neurosci. Rev. 2002, 1(3):206-218.
2. Bookheimer S. Functional MRI of language: new approaches to understanding the cortical organization of semantic processing. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 2002, 25:151-188.
3. Braine M.D.S., O'Brien D.P. A theory of If: a lexical entry, reasoning program, and pragmatic principles. Psychol. Rev. 1991, 98:182-203.
4. Brett M., Anton J., Valabregue R., Poline J. Region of interest analysis using the MarsBar toolbox for SPM 99. Poster Presented at the 8th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain. Sendai, Japan 2002.
5. Byrne R.M.J. Mental models and counterfactual thoughts about what might have been. Trends Cogn. Sci. 2002, 6(10):426-431.
6. Byrne R.M.J. Précis of the rational imagination: how people create alternatives to reality. Behav. Brain Sci. 2007, 30:439-480.
7. Byrne R.M.J., Johnson-Laird P.N. 'If' and the problems of conditional reasoning. Trends Cogn. Sci. 2009, 13(7):282-287.
8. Coulson S., Federmeier K.D., Van Petten C., Kutas M. Right hemisphere sensitivity to word- and sentence-level context: evidence from event-related brain potentials. J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn. 2005, 31:129-147.
9. Davis C.J., Perea M. BuscaPalabras: A program for deriving orthographic and phonological neighborhood statistics and other psycholinguistic indices in Spanish. Behavior Research Methods 2005, 37:665-671.
10. Eichenbaum H. A cortical-hippocampal system for declarative memory. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 2000, 1:41-50.
11. Evans J.S.B.T. The heuristic-analytic theory of reasoning: extension and evaluation. Psychon. Bull. Rev. 2006, 13(3):378-395.
12. Evans A.C., Collins D.L., Mills S.R., Brown E.D., Kelly R.L., Peters T.M. IEEE conference record, nuclear science symposium, and medical imaging conference. Inst. Electr. Electron. Eng., San Francisco 1993, 1813-1817.
13. Evans J.S.B.T., Over D.E., Handley S.J. Suppositions, extensionality and conditionals: a critique of the model theory of Johnson-Laird & Byrne (2002). Psychol. Rev. 2005, 112:1040-1052.
14. Faust M.E., Gernsbacher M.A. Cerebral mechanisms for suppression of inappropriate information during sentence comprehension. Brain Lang. 1996, 53:234-259.
15. Federmeier K.D., Wlotko E., Meyer A.M. Whats right in language comprehension: ERPs reveal right hemisphere language capabilities. Lang. Linguist. Compass 2008, 2:1-17.
16. Ferguson H.J., Sanford A.J. Anomalies in real and counterfactual worlds: an eye-movement investigation. J. Mem. Lang. 2008, 58:609-626.
17. Ferguson H.J., Sanford A.J., Leuthold H. Eye-movements and ERPs reveal the time-course of processing negation and remitting counterfactual worlds. Brain Res. 2008, 1236:113-125.
18. Ferstl E.C., Neumann J., Bogler C., von Cramon D.Y. The extended language network: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies on text comprehension. Hum. Brain Mapp. 2008, 29:581-593.
19. Friston K.J., Fletcher P., Josephs O., Holmes A., Rugg M.D., Turner R. Event-related fMRI: characterizing differential responses. NeuroImage 1998, 7(1):30-40.
20. Genovese C.R., Lazar N.A., Nichols T. Thresholding of statistical maps in functional neuroimaging using the false discovery rate. NeuroImage 2002, 15(4):870-878.
21. Gernsbacher M.A. Attenuating interference during comprehension: the role of suppression. The Psychology of Learning and Motivation 1997, 85-104. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. D.L. Medin (Ed.).
22. Goel V. Anatomy of deductive reasoning. Trends Cogn. Sci. 2007, 11(10):435-441.
23. Goel V., Dolan R.J. Explaining modulation of reasoning by belief. Cognition 2003, 87(1):B11-B22.
24. Groen W.B., Tesink C.M.J.Y., Petersson K.M., Van Berkum J.J.A., Van der Gaag R.J., Hagoort P., Buitelaar J.K. Semantic, factual, and social language comprehension in adolescents with autism: an fMRI study. Cereb. Cortex 2010, 20(8):1937-1945.
25. Hagoort P. On Broca, brain, and binding: a new framework. Trends Cogn. Sci. 2005, 9(9):416-423.
26. Hagoort P., van Berkum J.J. Beyond the sentence given. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 2007, 362:801-811.
27. Hagoort P., Hald L.A., Bastiaansen M., Petersson K.M. Integration of word meaning and world knowledge in language comprehension. Science 2004, 304:438-441.
28. Hagoort P., Baggio G., Willems R.M. Semantic unification. The Cognitive Neurosciences 2009, 819-836. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 4th ed. M.S. Gazzaniga (Ed.).
29. Hald L.A., Steenbeek-Planting E.G., Hagoort P. The interaction of discourse context and world knowledge in online sentence comprehension. Evidence from the N400. Brain Res. 2007, 1146:210-218.
30. Jonides J., Schumancher E.H., Smith E.E., Koeppe R.A., Awh E., Reurter-Lorenz P.A., Marchuetz C., Willis C.R. The role of parietal cortex in verbal working memory. J. Neurosci. 1998, 18:5026-5034.
31. Jung-Beeman M. Bilateral brain processes for comprehending natural language. Trends Cogn. Sci. 2005, 9(11):712-718.
32. Kahneman D., Miller D.T. Norm theory - Comparing reality to its alternatives. Psychological Review 1986, 93:136-153.
33. Kintsch W. The role of knowledge in discourse comprehension: a construction-integration model. Psychol. Rev. 1988, 95(2):163-182.
34. Kuperberg G.R., Lakshmanan B.M., Caplan D.N., Holcomb P.J. Making sense of discourse: an fMRI study of causal inferencing across sentences. NeuroImage 2006, 33:343-361.
35. Lau E.F., Phillips C., Poeppel D. A cortical network for semantics: (De) constructing the N400. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 2008, 9(12):920-933.
36. Lewis D. Counterfactuals 1973, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.
37. Mason R.A., Just M.A. Neuroimaging contributions to the understanding of discourse processes. Handbook of Psycholinguistics 2006, 765-799. Elsevier, Amsterdam. M. Traxler, M.A. Gernsbacher (Eds.).
38. Menenti L., Petersson K.M., Scheeringa R., Hagoort P. When elephants fly: differential sensitivity of right and left inferior frontal gyri to discourse and world knowledge. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 2009, 21:2358-2368.
39. Montague R. The proper treatment of quantification in ordinary English. Formal Philosophy: Selected Papers of Richard Montague 1974, Yale University Press, New Haven. R. Thomason (Ed.).
40. Myers J.L., O'Brien E.J. Accessing the discourse representation during reading. Discourse Process. 1998, 26:131-157.
41. Nieuwland M.S., Kuperberg G.R. When the truth is not too hard to handle: an event-related potential study on the pragmatics of negation. Psychol. Sci. 2008, 19:1213-1218.
42. Nieuwland M.S., Martin A.E. If the real world were irrelevant, so to speak: The role of propositional truth-value in counterfactual sentence comprehension. Cognition 2012, 122:102-109.
43. Nieuwland M.S., Van Berkum J.J.A. When peanuts fall in love: N400 evidence for the power of discourse. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 2006, 18(7):1098-1111.
44. Nieuwland M.S., Petersson K.M., Van Berkum J.J.A. On sense and reference: examining the functional neuroanatomy of referential processing. NeuroImage 2007, 37(3):993-1004.
45. Nieuwland, M.S., Martin, A.E., & Carreiras, M. (2011). Brain regions that process case: Evidence from Basque. In press at Hum. Brain Mapp. doi:10.1002/hbm.21377.
46. Pinker S., Bloom P. Natural language and natural selection. Behav. Brain Sci. 1990, 13(4):707-784.
47. Price C.J. The anatomy of language: a review of 100 fMRI studies published in 2009. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 2010, 1191(1):62-88.
48. Roese N.J. Counterfactual thinking. Psychological Bulletin 1997, 121:133-148.
49. Searle J.R. The logical status of fictional discourse. New Literary Hist. 1975, 6:319-332.
50. Stalnaker R.C. A theory of conditionals. American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph Series 1968, 98-112. Blackwell, Oxford. N. Rescher (Ed.).
51. Stringaris A.K., Medford N., Giora R., Giampietro V.C., Brammer M.J., David A.S. How metaphors influence semantic relatedness judgments: the role of the right frontal cortex. NeuroImage 2006, 33:784-793.
52. Tarski A. The semantic conception of truth. The Philosophy of Language 1944, 69-91. Oxford University Press, New York. A.P. Martinich (Ed.).
53. Tesink C.M.J.Y., Petersson K.M., Van Berkum J.J.A., Van den Brink D., Buitelaar J.K., Hagoort P. Unification of speaker and meaning in language comprehension: an fMRI study. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 2009, 21:2085-2099.
54. Tesink C.M.J.Y., Buitelaar J.K., Petersson K.M., Van der Gaag R.J., Teunisse J.-P., Hagoort P. Neural correlates of language comprehension in autism spectrum disorders: when language conflicts with world knowledge. Neuropsychologia 2011, 49:1095-1104.
55. Thompson-Schill S.L., D'Esposito M., Aguirre G.K., Farah M.J. Role of left inferior prefrontal cortex in retrieval of semantic knowledge: a reevaluation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1997, 94:14792-14797.
56. Turken A.U., Dronkers N.F. The neural architecture of the language comprehension network: converging evidence from lesion and connectivity analyses. Front. Syst. Neurosci. 2011, 5:1. 10.3389/fnsys.2011.00001.
57. Tzourio-Mazoyer N., Landeau B., Papathanassiou D., Crivello F., Etard O., Delcroix N., Mazoyer B., Joliot M. Automated anatomical labeling of activations in SPM using a macroscopic anatomical parcellation of the MNI MRI single-subject brain. NeuroImage 2002, 15:273-289.
58. Van Berkum J.J.A., Van den Brink D., Tesink C.M.J.Y., Kos M., Hagoort P. The neural integration of speaker and message. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 2008, 20(4):580-591.
59. Van Berkum J.J.A., Holleman B., Nieuwland M.S., Otten M., Murre J. Right or wrong? The brain's fast response to morally objectionable statements. Psychol. Sci. 2009, 20:1092-1099.
60. Van Petten C., Luka B.J. Neural localization of semantic context effects in electromagnetic and hemodynamic studies. Brain Lang. 2006, 97(3):279-293.
61. Willems R.M., De Boer M., De Ruiter J.P., Noordzij M.L., Hagoort P., Toni I. A cerebral dissociation between linguistic and communicative abilities in humans. Psychol. Sci. 2010, 21(1):8-14.
62. Xiang H.-D., Fonteijn H.M., Norris D.G., Hagoort P. Topographical functional connectivity pattern in the perisylvian language networks. Cereb. Cortex 2010, 20:549-560.
63. Xu J., Kemeny S., Park G., Frattali C., Braun A. Language in context: emergent features of word, sentence, and narrative comprehension. NeuroImage 2005, 25:1002-1015.