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.
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