Towards a neurobiology of information structure
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2016
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Bornkessel Schlesewsky, I.
Schumacher, P.B.
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Féry, C.
Ishihara, S.
Ishihara, S.
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Source details - Title: The Oxford handbook of information structure, 2016 / Féry, C., Ishihara, S. (ed./s), Ch.29, pp.581-598
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This chapter reviews neurophysiological and neuroanatomical investigations of information structural notions, with a view to working towards a neurobiologically grounded perspective. It first considers components of a neurobiologically plausible theory of information structure and outlines candidate mechanisms for higher-order cognitive processing, namely prediction and mental modelling, attention orientation, memory, and inferencing. The chapter then proceeds to neuroscientific investigations of information structure, highlighting differences between sentence- and text-level processing and discussing findings for the information structural notions of givenness, focus, and topic, before presenting further insights from syntax-induced information structural effects. The chapter concludes with a discussion of neurobiological models of information structure processing.
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Link to a related website: http://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642670.001.0001, doi of book
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Copyright 2016 editorial matter and organization Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara, the chapters their several authors