Publications by authors named "Tzu-Yun Tung"
Expectations modulate retrieval interference during ellipsis resolution.
Neuropsychologia
November 2023
Memory operations during language comprehension are subject to interference: retrieval is harder when items are linguistically similar to each other. We test how such interference effects might be modulated by linguistic expectations. Theories differ in how these factors might interact; we consider three possibilities: (i) predictability determines the need for retrieval, (ii) predictability affects cue-preference during retrieval, or (iii) word predictability moderates the effect of noise in memory during retrieval.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHierarchy, Not Lexical Regularity, Modulates Low-Frequency Neural Synchrony During Language Comprehension.
Neurobiol Lang (Camb)
September 2022
Article Synopsis
- Neural responses may synchronize with sentence structure, raising debate on whether this reflects hierarchical or lexical information.
- Research used computational simulations showing similar power spectra from lexical information alone, suggesting sentence-level tracking might be driven by lexical patterns rather than syntax.
- Experimental EEG data revealed strong delta synchronization for grammatically correct sentences but not for reversed phrases, supporting the hierarchical model over the lexical one.