Effects of contextual relevance on pragmatic inference during   conversation: An fMRI study

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2017.04.005

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	Effects of contextual relevance on pragmatic inference during conversation: An fMRI study
	Feng, Wangshu ; Wu, Yue ; Jan, Catherine ; Yu, Hongbo ; Jiang, Xiaoming ; Zhou, Xiaolin
刊名	BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
	2017
关键词	Pragmatic inference Indirect reply Conversational implicature Contextual relevance fMRI Functional connectivity TEMPORAL-PARIETAL JUNCTION STORY COMPREHENSION TEXT COMPREHENSION PREFRONTAL CORTEX SOCIAL COGNITION NEURAL BASES LANGUAGE BRAIN MIND METAANALYSIS
DOI	10.1016/j.bandl.2017.04.005
英文摘要	Contextual relevance, which is vital for understanding conversational implicatures (CI), engages both the frontal-temporal language and theory-of-mind networks. Here we investigate how contextual relevance affects CI processing and regulates the connectivity between Cl-processing-related brain regions. Participants listened to dialogues in which the level of contextual relevance to dialogue-final utterance (reply) was manipulated. This utterance was either direct, indirect but relevant, irrelevant with contextual hint, or irrelevant with no contextual hint. Results indicated that compared with direct replies, indirect replies showed increased activations in bilateral IFG, bilateral MTG, bilateral TPJ, dmPFC, and precuneus, and increased connectivity between rTPJ/dmPFC and both IFG and MTG. Moreover, irrelevant replies activated right MTG along an anterior-posterior gradient as a function of the level of irrelevance. Our study provides novel evidence concerning how the language and theory-of-mind networks interact for pragmatic inference and how the processing of CI is modulated by level of contextual relevance. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.; Natural Science Foundation of China [31470976]; Social Science Foundation of China [12ZD119]; SCI(E); SSCI; ARTICLE; 52-61; 171
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/469069]
专题	心理与认知科学学院信息科学技术学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Feng, Wangshu,Wu, Yue,Jan, Catherine,et al. Effects of contextual relevance on pragmatic inference during conversation: An fMRI study[J]. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE,2017.
APA	Feng, Wangshu,Wu, Yue,Jan, Catherine,Yu, Hongbo,Jiang, Xiaoming,&Zhou, Xiaolin.(2017).Effects of contextual relevance on pragmatic inference during conversation: An fMRI study.BRAIN AND LANGUAGE.
MLA	Feng, Wangshu,et al."Effects of contextual relevance on pragmatic inference during conversation: An fMRI study".BRAIN AND LANGUAGE (2017).