Event-related potentials, lexical decision and semantic priming

Bentin, Shlomo; McCarthy, Gregory; Wood, Charles Cresson

doi:10.1016/0013-4694(85)90008-2

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“…A reduced N400 has been found as a function of priming by related words (Bentin et al, 1985;Hagoort et al, 1996;Holcomb, 1988;Holcomb and Neville, 1991). Similarly, other studies have suggested that rhyme priming (shared word offsets) and alliterative priming (shared word onsets) also affect the amplitude of the N400, such that it is reduced to words (and in some cases non-words) that are preceded by a word that rhymes (e.g., Praamstra et al, 1994;Radeau et al, 1998;Rugg, 1985Rugg, , 1987 or by a word that has the same onset as the critical word (e.g., O'Rourke and Holcomb, 2002;Praamstra et al, 1994).…”

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Electrophysiological differentiation of phonological and semantic integration in word and sentence contexts

Diaz

Swaab

2007

Brain Research

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During auditory language comprehension, listeners need to rapidly extract meaning from the continuous speech-stream. It is a matter of debate when and how contextual information constrains the activation of lexical representations in meaningful contexts. Electrophysiological studies of spoken language comprehension have identified an event-related potential (ERP) that was sensitive to phonological properties of speech, which was termed the phonological mismatch negativity (PMN). With the PMN, early lexical processing could potentially be distinguished from processes of semantic integration in spoken language comprehension. However, the sensitivity of the PMN to phonological processing per se has been questioned, and it has additionally been suggested that the "PMN" is not separable from the N400, an ERP that is sensitive to semantic aspects of the input. Here, we investigated whether or not a separable PMN exists and if it reflects purely phonological aspects of the speech input. In the present experiment, ERPs were recorded from healthy young adults (N =24) while they listened to sentences and word lists, in which we manipulated semantic and phonological expectation and congruency of the final word. ERPs sensitive to phonological processing were elicited only when phonological expectancy was violated in lists of words, but not during normal sentential processing. This suggests a differential role of phonological processing in more or less meaningful contexts and indicates a very early influence of the overall context on lexical processing in sentences.

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Electrophysiological differentiation of phonological and semantic integration in word and sentence contexts

Diaz

Swaab

2007

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“…Kutas and Federmeier (2000) have argued that one of the mental processes reflected by the N400 amplitude is search within the mental lexicon. This notion was brought up by studies of Bentin et al (1985) and Holcomb (1993), who were presenting word pairs and demonstrated a reduced N400 amplitude if the first word primes the semantic context of the second (semantic priming effect). This reduced N400 amplitude was taken to indicate the faster search in long-term memory for the primed word.…”

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Localizing the distributed language network responsible for the N400 measured by MEG during auditory sentence processing

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We studied auditory sentence comprehension using magnetoencephalography while subjects listened to sentences whose correctness they had to judge subsequently. The localization and the time course of brain electrical activity during processing of correct and semantically incorrect sentences were estimated by computing a brain surface current density within a cortical layer for both conditions. Finally, a region of interest (ROI) analysis was conducted to determine the time course of specific locations. A magnetic N400 was

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“…ERPs are especially amenable to examining modality effects on semantic processing because a component of the ERP-the N400, a negativity observed between 250 to 500 milliseconds after stimulus onset-has been specifically linked to semantic processing. The N400 seems to be the normal response to words, whether they are printed, spoken, or signed (e.g., Kutas, Neville, & Holcomb, 1987), and its amplitude varies inversely with an item's fit to the current semantic context, whether that context is a sentence or a single preceding word (e.g., Bentin, McCarthy, & Wood, 1985;Boddy & Weinberg, 1981;Kutas, 1993). Kutas and Van Petten (1990) first reported that incongruous pictures in sentence contexts elicited N400-like activity-increased negativity 250 to 500 ms after stimulus onset-relative to congruous pictures.…”

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Meaning and modality: Influences of context, semantic memory organization, and perceptual predictability on picture processing.

Federmeier

Kutas

2001

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Words (visual or auditory) and pictures are both physical objects that, through experience, have come to be associated with information not explicitly contained in the physical form of the word or picture itself. In this sense, both pictures and words can be thought of as symbols, or objects that "stand for" information that they do not directly represent. Of course, not all words have clear pictorial counterparts (e.g., function words), and in many cases it would take multiple words to convey the information in a single picture. However, pictures and words can often be used in similar ways and can lead to similar kinds of behavior. In a psychological experiment or in everyday life, for example, seeing either the written word "cat" or a picture of a cat can lead an individual to say /kat/ or to be reminded that cats meow, hate water, chase mice, and so on.A long-standing question in psychology asks how that subset of knowledge that can be conveyed by either a word or a picture is stored and processed. Two general classes of models have been put forward. Multiple semantic system models hypothesize that pictures and words are processed in distinct, specialized semantic systems (e.g., Paivio, 1971Paivio, , 1986Paivio, , 1991Shallice, 1988). In Paivio's "dual-code" model, for example, there is a "logogen" system for word processing and an "imagen" system for picture processing. These systems can communicate with one another but operate independently and have their own organization and pro-

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Event-related potentials, lexical decision and semantic priming

Cited by 734 publications

References 24 publications

Electrophysiological differentiation of phonological and semantic integration in word and sentence contexts

Electrophysiological differentiation of phonological and semantic integration in word and sentence contexts

Localizing the distributed language network responsible for the N400 measured by MEG during auditory sentence processing

Meaning and modality: Influences of context, semantic memory organization, and perceptual predictability on picture processing.

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