Where the Brain Appreciates the Final State of an Event: The Neural Correlates of Telicity

Autor/inn/en	Romagno, Domenica; Rota, Giuseppina; Ricciardi, Emiliano; Pietrini, Pietro
Titel	Where the Brain Appreciates the Final State of an Event: The Neural Correlates of Telicity
Quelle	In: Brain and Language, 123 (2012) 1, S.68-74 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0093-934X
DOI	10.1016/j.bandl.2012.06.003
Schlagwörter	Evidence; Semantics; Neurology; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Correlation; Diagnostic Tests; Verbs; Language Processing; Cognitive Processes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evidenz; Semantik; Neurologie; Korrelation; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Sprachverarbeitung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess
Abstract	In this study we investigated whether the human brain distinguishes between telic events that necessarily entail a specified endpoint (e.g., "reaching"), and atelic events with no delimitation or final state (e.g., "chasing"). We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to explore the patterns of neural response associated with verbs denoting telic and atelic events, and found that the left posterior middle temporal gyrus (pMTG), an area consistently engaged by verb processing tasks, showed a significantly higher activation for telic compared with atelic verbs. These results provide the first evidence that the human brain appreciates whether events lead to an end or a change of state. Moreover, they provide an explanation for the long-debated question of which verb properties modulate neural activity in the left pMTG, as they indicate that, independently of any other semantic property, verb processing and event knowledge in this area are specifically related to the representation of telicity. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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