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LSLT: Phoebe Gaston (LING)

Time: 
Thursday, May 07, 2020 - 12:30 PM
Location: 
Online: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96912268853

 

Syntactic vs. lexical effects in fMRI and MEG

Abstract: Contrasts between sentence and list stimuli routinely yield apparent effects of syntactic structure in fMRI. Recent work in MEG has suggested an effect specifically of syntactic prediction. However in a MEG design that removes lexical predictability we find no effects of structure, predictive or otherwise. I will describe this finding, and then consider how well a lexical explanation for what might appear to be structure effects can account for previous work across various methods.