The Effects of Associative Encoding on the Left ATL

Linguist: We very consistently see effects of composition in the left anterior temporal lobe. And we've been able to show that really is more of a conceptual process than a process where you're taking like syntactic categories and building a phrase, he says. But associative encoding also drives the left to ATL, including in the monkey brain,. So it's very interesting to think about that contrast and the possible connection. The study was done with Ji Jing who already had done some work on kind of composition versus association.