LSLT: Phoebe Gaston (LING)
Time:
Thursday, May 07, 2020 - 12:30 PM
Location:
Online: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96912268853
Syntactic vs. lexical effects in fMRI and MEG
Abstract: Contrasts between sentence and list stimuli routinely yield apparent effects of syntactic structure in fMRI. Recent work in MEG has suggested an effect specifically of syntactic prediction. However in a MEG design that removes lexical predictability we find no effects of structure, predictive or otherwise. I will describe this finding, and then consider how well a lexical explanation for what might appear to be structure effects can account for previous work across various methods.
