1. What is the main question of the paper?
The localization incongruence int he literature emerges from an interaction of memory and linguistic constraints involved in the real-time implementation of these long-distance dependencies and which had not been previous isolated.———————————————————————————————————————————————
2. What are the main conditions they test? How do they help them answer their question?
Four types of sentences that allows them to manipulate the following variables:
- GAP search
- GAP completion
- Indirect vs direct search
These conditions allows them to isolation the two main processing mechanisms that play a role in processing long distance dependencies and to investigate their memory constraints.
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3. How are the subtractions in the fMRI data different from previous studies?
They involve subtractions between events, instead of between whole sentences.
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4. What is an “event” in their fMRI design? Provide the definition and an example.
A part of the sentence in which the processing mechanism under investigation is at play.
Event 1: the journalist claimed that the government report [mechanism under investigation: GAP search]
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5. In the fourth paragraph of page 2, the authors say To this end, we isolate the neurocognitive factors underpinning LDD comprehension on the basis of an analysis of relative pronouns that connects to parallel, incremental left-to-right structure-building mechanisms with potential neurocognitive relevance. Using fMRI, we examine the timing and cortical commitments of the interaction of these mechanisms.
What do the authors mean by this?
[answers vary here depending on the level of resolution, check your homework]/
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6. What is GAP search? What is GAP completion?
GAP SEARCH:processing mechanism triggered by the retrieval of the relative pronoun
GAP COMPLETION: processing mechanism triggered by the retrieval of the embedded verb.
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7. What is the incongruence in the literature that the authors are addressing? How do they explain this incongruence?
Lesion-based data and neuroimaging data show different regional involvement in the processing of long-distance dependencies.
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