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Cognitive and Neural Basis of Discourse Processing

Volume: 8 Number: 1 January 13, 2024
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Cognitive and Neural Basis of Discourse Processing

Abstract

The main goal of the education process is to promote achieving a desired level of academic competence. The design of the didactic process and educational activities considering the factors that affect learning-teaching dynamics is crucial to improve the quality of learning outputs. Reading is one of the key learning areas targeted and emphasized in the education process. Although reading is among the main language skills, the development of reading skills is also important for academic development in other learning areas. Reading is a process of constructing meanings of words and text and occurs through cognitive functions at various levels. The quality of the product to be obtained at the end of the reading process, that is knowledge acquisition, is primarily proportional to the quality of the cognitive mechanisms carried out during the reading process. To access textual meaning, it is necessary to establish how each element in the text assembles in accordance with the discourse structure. Therefore, one of the key components of the reading-comprehension process is discourse processing. The goal of discourse processing is to build mental connections between text segments in order to uncover local and global coherence networks. In this respect, discourse processing itself is a cognitive action that extends to mental processes, and thus it is important for improving reading skills to determine the dynamics of cognitive system functioning during discourse processing and the cortical regions involved in. According to above-mentioned background, the aim of this study is to focus on how the cognitive system functions in discourse processing and to examine which cortical regions are activated in cognitive processes in line with the literature findings.

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Details

Primary Language

Turkish

Subjects

Studies on Education

Journal Section

Review

Publication Date

January 13, 2024

Submission Date

February 9, 2023

Acceptance Date

December 13, 2023

Published in Issue

Year 1970 Volume: 8 Number: 1

APA
Kaygısız, Ç. (2024). Söylem İşlemenin Bilişsel ve Sinirsel Temelleri. Anadolu University Journal of Education Faculty, 8(1), 517-530. https://doi.org/10.34056/aujef.1249529

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