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More than words: Extra-Sylvian neuroanatomic networks support indirect speech act discourse comprehension in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

2020-09-25

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<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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8f0062b4-49b2-55ee-87f1-488a91e9d802
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10.1101/2020.09.23.20199851
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