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Discourse representation in the two cerebral hemispheres.

Debra L Long1, Kathleen Baynes

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. dllong@ucdavis.edu

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
|April 24, 2002
PubMed
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Brain regions involved in text comprehension show hemispheric specialization. Propositional text representations are primarily processed in the left hemisphere, while discourse models are processed in both hemispheres.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Text comprehension involves constructing propositional representations and discourse models.
  • Understanding the neural basis of these representations is crucial for cognitive science.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the hemispheric storage of propositional representations and discourse models during text comprehension.
  • To examine how the brain processes semantic relationships within and across sentences.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized an item priming in recognition paradigm combined with a lateralized visual field procedure.
  • Experiment 1 involved presenting stimuli to either the left or right visual field.
  • Experiment 2 replicated findings in callosotomy patients.

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Main Results:

  • Propositional representations were found to be structured and stored in the left hemisphere.
  • Priming effects for propositional relations were observed only in the left hemisphere.
  • Both hemispheres showed priming for context-appropriate senses of ambiguous words and passage topics, suggesting discourse model involvement.

Conclusions:

  • The distinction between propositional representations and discourse models is critical for understanding brain-based text processing.
  • Propositional text information is primarily localized to the left cerebral hemisphere.
  • Aspects of the discourse model are represented bilaterally in the brain.