Malathi Thothathiri
George Washington University
28 Papers
100 Citations
Malathi Thothathiri is an academic researcher from George Washington University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sentence & Verb. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 22 publications. Previous affiliations of Malathi Thothathiri include Temple University & Harvard University.
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Papers
Syntactic priming during language comprehension in three- and four-year-old children
TL;DR: This article found that the onset of the direct object noun was consistent with both an animate recipient and an inanimate theme, creating a temporary ambiguity in the argument structure of the verb (double-object e.g., Show the horse the book; prepositional-object E.g. Show the horn to the dog).
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Give and Take: Syntactic Priming during Spoken Language Comprehension.
TL;DR: In all experiments, participants who heard DO primes showed a greater preference for the recipient over the theme than those who heard PO primes, demonstrating across-verb priming during online language comprehension.
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The neural basis of reversible sentence comprehension: Evidence from voxel-based lesion symptom mapping in aphasia
TL;DR: It is detected weak or no association between reversible sentence comprehension and the ventrolateral pFC, which includes Broca's area, even for syntactically complex sentences, which casts doubt on theories that presuppose a critical role for this region in syntactic computations.
Who did what? A causal role for cognitive control in thematic role assignment during sentence comprehension.
TL;DR: Cognitive control engagement facilitated the resolution of syntax-semantics conflict by biasing processing towards the intended analysis, demonstrating a causal connection between cognitive control and real-time thematic role assignment.
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Selection for Position: The Role of Left Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Sequencing Language.
TL;DR: Experimental case studies of four left VLPFC patients revealed that two of the patients showed exaggerated positional interference, greater number of errors, including omissions during multi-word production, increased production difficulty when the order of nouns did not match the predominant English pattern, as well as impaired comprehension of non-canonical reversible sentences.
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