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The role of world knowledge in sentence comprehension under working-memory constraints: An fMRI study

Introduction: Comprehension of thematic roles, i.e., "who did what to whom," relies on limited cognitive resources, and constraints on these resources can alter the use of plausibility information derived from world knowledge. Although sentence-processing studies have described how plausibility information constrains interpretation, it remains unclear how this process is supported by the…

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