A neural mechanism for non-verbal discourse comprehension.
Sometimes, a thousand words isn't worth a picture. A recent study by West and Holcomb used event-related potentials to examine non-verbal, discourse-level processing of stories presented as picture sequences. These complex pictures were presented at a rapid rate, thereby minimizing linguistic mediation. The ERP showed N300 and N400 deflections, hypothesized to reflect image activation and amodal semantic integration, respectively.
Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, 3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A, 19104-6228, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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