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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Sentence oral reading integrates visual, articulatory, and cognitive functions.
  • A top-down influence from linguistic knowledge on visual-motor behavior is crucial.
  • The time-varying brain dynamics underlying predictive coding in reading remain incompletely understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To comprehensively demonstrate the time-varying brain dynamics of the predictive coding effect in sentence oral reading.
  • To investigate the neural underpinnings of hierarchical sentence structuring during reading.
  • To explore the interplay between cognitive control and visual-motor networks.

Main Methods:

  • Multimodal approach combining electroencephalography (EEG), eye movements, and speech recording.
  • Real-time analysis of regional, inter-regional, sub-network, and whole-brain responses.
  • Examination of neural synchronization in delta and theta bands and cross-frequency coupling.

Main Results:

  • Identified a phrase-grouping phenomenon reflecting a top-down predictive effect in fixation intervals and eye-voice span.
  • Observed delta and theta band synchronization in prefrontal, anterior temporal, and inferior frontal lobes.
  • Detected early activation of the cognitive control network and its recurrent interactions with visual-motor networks at the phrase rate.

Conclusions:

  • The study highlights the role of predictive coding and hierarchical structuring in sentence reading.
  • Cross-frequency coupling is proposed as a key neural mechanism for sentence structuring.
  • Findings emphasize the dynamic interplay between cognitive control and visual-motor systems during reading.