Meaning=predictions based on context and prior knowledge.
Nothing new here but it’s nice to see my current bias, embodied cognition, getting really nice neuroscience component.
“We have proposed that this semantic process indexed by the N400 is accomplished by a fronto-temporo-parietal network in which meaning construction is shaped by predictions derived from contextual ongoing information and previous knowledge. By this means, we suggest that predictive and semantic-related processing are core aspects of what this component is actually indexing.”
It’s hard to explain why, but this awkward set of run-on sentences that any English teacher would have Flunked me on… is a thing of beauty to me.
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00057/full