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Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina ORCID: 0000-0002-3238-6492 and Schumacher, Petra B. ORCID: 0000-0003-0263-8502 (2016). Towards a Neurobiology of Information Structure. In: The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure, pp. 581-598. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642670.013.22

Abstract

This chapter reviews neurophysiological and neuroanatomical investigations of information structural notions, with a view to working towards a neurobiologically grounded perspective. It first considers components of a neurobiologically plausible theory of information structure and outlines candidate mechanisms for higher-order cognitive processing, namely prediction and mental modelling, attention orientation, memory, and inferencing. The chapter then proceeds to neuroscientific investigations of information structure, highlighting differences between sentence- and text-level processing and discussing findings for the information structural notions of givenness, focus, and topic, before presenting further insights from syntax-induced information structural effects. The chapter concludes with a discussion of neurobiological models of information structure processing.

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Creators	Email	ORCID	ORCID Put Code
Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0002-3238-6492	UNSPECIFIED
Schumacher, Petra B.	petra.schumacher@uni-koeln.de	orcid.org/0000-0003-0263-8502	UNSPECIFIED