Abstract:Social hierarchies modulate cognitive processes. Nevertheless, the study of the influence of social hierarchy on sentence comprehension is scarce. We presented sentences with different levels of plausibility uttered by speakers with different hierarchical status (as previously established through a hierarchical video game) and measured the modulations of the N400 component. Participants heard three subsets of sentences with different plausibility value, depending on the last word (high, intermediate and low-pl… Show more
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