Semantic representations during language comprehension are affected by context (Deniz et al., Journal of Neuroscience, 2023)
April 26, 2023
Most neuroimaging studies of meaning use isolated words and sentences with little context. We find that increasing context improves the quality of neuroimaging data and changes where and how semantic information is represented in the brain. Findings from studies using out-of-context stimuli may not generalize to natural language used in daily life.