Integration of Word Meaning and World Knowledge in Language Comprehension

By Peter Hagoort, L. Hald, Marcel C. M. Bastiaansen, Karl Magnus Petersson. Science, 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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When Peanuts Fall in Love: N400 Evidence for the Power of Discourse (2005, background): “Furthermore, neuroimaging evidence has shown that such high-level, real-world knowledge can have an immediate effect on language comprehension (e.g., Hagoort, Hald, Bastiaansen, & Petersson, 2004; Mu ¨nte, Schiltz, & Kutas, 1998).”
Neural reflections of meaning in gesture, language, and action (2009, methodology): “First, Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) are averaged time segments of the Electroencephalogram (EEG), time- 17 locked to a cognitive event.”
On-line Integration of Semantic Information from Speech and Gesture: Insights from Event-related Brain Potentials (2007, background): “If the brain uses an incremental and parallel processing of linguistic and extralinguistic information as found in previous studies (Hagoort et al., 2004), we expect a similar latency and amplitude of the N400 effect for all types of mismatches (i.e., language, gesture, and double), revealing that…”
The role of precuneus and left inferior frontal cortex during source memory episodic retrieval (2005, neutral): “…a more general role, possibly in maintaining retrieval cues and retrieved information, selection of relevant information, inhibiting irrelevant information, or integration of retrieved information (Fletcher and Henson, 2001; Hagoort et al., 2004; Nolde et al., 1998b; Thompson-Schill et al., 1999).”
A cortical network for semantics: (de)constructing the N400 (2008, background): “In addition to the specific processes of selection and retrieval, the IFG has been linked to the integration of linguistic meaning with world knowledg”
The neuropragmatics of 'simple' utterance comprehension: An ERP review (2009, background): “In some studies, the N400 has been shown to be highly sensitive to whether statements were true (e.g., “Dutch trains are yellow”) or false (e.g., “Dutch trains are white”, Hagoort et al., 2004; Nieuwland & Kuperberg, in press).”
The Neural Integration of Speaker and Message (2008, background): “George, Mannes, & Hoffman, 1994), and to one’s knowledge of the world (Hagoort et al., 2004).”
Cortical representation of the constituent structure of sentences (2011, background): “26) and the more anterior aspects dealing with semantic processes (40).”
Neural mechanisms of language comprehension: challenges to syntax. (2007, background): “” elicit a more negative N400 than words that are consistent with such expectations such as “yellow” (Dutch comprehenders know that Dutch trains are, in fact, yellow) (Hagoort et al., 2004).”
Beyond ERPs: Oscillatory neuronal dynamics (2012, positive): “Recent we have addressed the oscillatory correlates of semantic unification in the following way (Hagoort et al., 2004; Hald et al., 2006).”
The neurobiology of language beyond single words. (2014, background): “Here one can think of information about the speaker (Van Berkum et al. 2008), co-speech gestures (Willems et al. 2007), or world knowledge (Hagoort et al. 2004).”
The Neural Architecture of the Language Comprehension Network: Converging Evidence from Lesion and Connectivity Analyses (2011, background): “We found that the IOFF fibers pass through the temporal white matter region highlighted in our lesion analysis, providing a bridge between the middle temporal region and inferior prefrontal area 47, which has been implicated in high-level language comprehension by several findings, including our les”