Syntactic Constructions Drive Cortical Tracking in the Absence of Lexical Content: An Electrophysiological Investigation of Sentence Processing During Reading
M. Blake Rafferty, Tim Saltuklaroglu, Eun Jin Paek, Kevin J. Reilly, David E. Jenson, David M. Thornton, Devin M. Casenhiser
The paper shows participants can track syntactic units in jabberwocky sentences when presented visually, suggesting phrase structure tracking does not rely on lexical content.
Language Cognition and Neuroscience · May 17, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience