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Science & ResearchJul 23, 2026

Cerebral Encoding of Word Classes is Distributed and Context-Dependent

Word classes such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives are fundamental units of language, but their neural encoding remains unclear.

Word classes such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives are fundamental units of language, but their neural encoding remains unclear. Here, we investigate whether word classes are processed as invariant, context-independent lexical categories or depend on sentence context during…

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