Article
More than words: Extra-Sylvian neuroanatomic networks support indirect speech act discourse comprehension in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia
2020-09-25
Abstract excerpt
<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Indirect speech acts— responding “I forgot to wear my watch today” to someone who asked for the time — are ubiquitous in daily conversation, but are understudied in current neurobiological models of language. To comprehend an indirect speech act like this one, listeners must not only decode the lexical-semantic content of the utterance, but also make a pragmatic, bridging inference. This inferenc...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8f0062b4-49b2-55ee-87f1-488a91e9d802
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.09.23.20199851
