
‘Disentangling Semantic Composition and Semantic Association in the Left Temporal Lobe’ with Liina Pylkkänen
The Language Neuroscience Podcast
The Effects of Conceptual Specificity on Activity
There's an added activation of an existing representation in the phrasal case when you're actually putting together the concept. The left ATL distinguishes very like the this sort of patent recognition algorithm can distinguish very well between high association composition, i.e. French cheese,. But it can't really do any of the other classifications. And I guess that kind of bolsters what you just said, like they might be something special about these sort of almost lexicalized combinations. That was how I was sort of thinking about it too, as I was reading it.
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