How Grammar Conveys Meaning: Language-Specific Spatial Encoding Patterns and Cross-Language Commonality in Higher-Order Neural Space

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Figure 5.
Figure 5.

Spatially interleaved distribution of informative voxels for identifying grammatical meanings in each language. The colored voxels were consistently (simulation-based p = 0.05) selected across participants for modeling grammatical features. The association of the voxels' distance with the weight similarity was negligible (Extended Data Fig. 5-1). Voxels representing Chinese (L1) sentences were more right-lateralized than those over English (L2) sentences (Extended Data Fig. 5-2). Voxels representing L2 grammatical features were more varied across participants (Extended Data Figs. 5-3, 5-4).

  1. The Journal of Neuroscience vol. 43 no. 46 7831-7841
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