FN400 and LPC Responses to Different Degrees of Sensory Involvement: A Study of Sentence Comprehension

Shayesteh, Shaghayegh; Pishghadam, Reza; Khodaverdi, Azin

doi:10.5709/acp-0283-6

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“…Their findings suggested that the N400 reflects context-sensitive lexical retrieval processes, and the observed P600 effects can be in line with the integration view. Most recently, Shayesteh et al ( 32 ) also found a late positive component (LPC) in addition to the N400 effect they found in response to semantically incongruent sentences, and they corroborated the previous studies which related this late positive component to the later stages of semantic integration processes.…”

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Functional Role of the N400 and the P600 in Language-related ERP Studies with Respect to Semantic Processing: An Overview

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Pishghadam

2021

Archives of Neuropsychiatry

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In this study, the language-related ERP studies relevant to the functional role of the N400 and P600 in semantically anomalous sentences and the underlying reasons which may affect their functions were reviewed. Since their discovery, the N400 and P600 have been the most important language-related ERP components. The N400 has been mostly elicited as a result of processing sentences with lexical and semantic anomalies, but later on, in many studies instead of the expected lexical-semantic N400 effect, semantic anomalies elicited a P600 effect called semantic P600. However, the functional interpretation of these two ERP components has constantly been a matter of debate. Perhaps most notably, it is proposed that it is not just the N400 which is related to semantic anomalies but the P600 can also be reflected as a result of these kinds of anomalies. Reviewing the literature for explaining the functions of the two ERP components, the N400 and the P600, during the processing of semantic anomalies revealed that still there is a need for more research on language processing in order to make the researchers capable of describing the underlying factors influencing them, especially more focused investigations of the functional-anatomical and neurocomputational models may provide a clearer understanding of them. Moreover, any practical theory or model of the N400 and the P600 in language comprehension needs to consider the apparent inconsistencies in the elicitation pattern of the N400 and the P600 in order to successfully capture the full data spectrum.

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Functional Role of the N400 and the P600 in Language-related ERP Studies with Respect to Semantic Processing: An Overview

Seyednozadi

Pishghadam

2021

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“…In some of them, which are relevant to the purpose of the present study, the role of emotion has been examined (e.g., Borsipour, Pishghadam, & Naji Meidani, 2019;Pishghadam, Zabetipour, & Aminzadeh, 2016). In some other studies, the role of senses in shaping emotioncy has been targeted (e.g., Pishghadam, Shakeebaee, & Rahmani, 2019;Shayesteh, Pishghadam, & Khodaverdi, 2020).…”

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“…Due to the nature of the EBLI which is related to sense-induced emotions, it seems that different levels of emotioncy in teaching vocabulary items will cause different emotional responses in learners toward those words. Moreover, although there is only a neurocognitive study scrutinizing the role of emotioncy in modulating FN400 and LPC in response to a sentence comprehension task (Shayesteh et al, 2020), there seems to be a paucity of neurocognitive evidence for the emotional dimension of the EBLI. Thus, this study examined different levels of emotioncy toward a word in a foreign language, which could modulate neural correlates of emotions during reading and comprehending the word.…”

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Sensory Emotion in Words: Evidence From an Event-related Potential (ERP) Study in Light of the Emotioncy Model

Farani

Pishghadam

Khodaverdi

2023

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Introduction: Delving into the prominent role of emotions and senses in the realm of language is not something new in the field. Thereupon, the newly developed notion of emotioncy has been introduced to the foreign language education to underscore the role of sense-induced emotions in the process of language learning and teaching. Methods: The present study implemented ERPs to provide evidence to the significance of employing emosensory instructional strategies in teaching vocabulary items. Hence, eighteen female participants were randomly instructed six English nouns toward which they had no prior knowledge and received no instruction for the other three words. Then, while the participants’ EEG was being recorded, they took a sentence comprehension task. Results: Behavioral results demonstrated significant differences among the avolved, the exvolved, and the involved nouns. However, ERP analyses of target words indicated the modulations of N100 and N480 components while no significant effect was observed at P200. Further, the analysis of sensory N100 for the critical words revealed no significant effect. Conclusion: In conclusion, the emotioncy-based language instruction could affect neural correlates of emotional word comprehension from the early stages of EEG recording. The findings of this study can shed light on the importance of including senses and emotions in language teaching, learning, and testing, along with materials development.

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“…It is basically assumed that different combinations of senses might capture different degrees of attention, as a result of which the accuracy and speed of comprehension may change. Several lines of research (e.g., Sparks et al, 1998 ; Stein et al, 2010 ; Aral and Sağlam, 2016 ; De Niear et al, 2016 ; Schneider and Kulmhofer, 2016 ; Myréen, 2017 ; Broadbent et al, 2018 ; Holler and Levinson, 2019 ; Jajarmi and Pishghadam, 2019 ) converge to suggest that the quality of input is associated with the characteristics of sensory representations, which are likely to take pivotal functions in how sensory signals cooperate with each other ( Azamnouri et al, 2020 ; Shayesteh et al, 2020 ). Although there have been recent ERP studies addressing the role of sense combinations in overall L2 sentence comprehension (e.g., Shayesteh et al, 2020 ; Pishghadam et al, 2021b ), there is only one single study that has investigated the role of multiple senses in the attention-related P200 component ( Shayesteh, 2019 ).…”

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“…To address the core assumption of the current study and provide multisensory input, we chose a list of L2 vocabulary items about which the subjects had no previous knowledge. L2 was selected since all the similar studies were conducted in the subjects’ foreign language ( Shayesteh et al, 2020 ; Pishghadam et al, 2021a , b ). It is also believed that the emotional responses which can influence any kind of cognitive processing are absent in individuals’ non-native languages ( Dylman and Bjärtå, 2018 ).…”

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Multisensory Input Modulates P200 and L2 Sentence Comprehension: A One-Week Consolidation Phase

2021

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Multisensory input is an aid to language comprehension; however, it remains to be seen to what extent various combinations of senses may affect the P200 component and attention-related cognitive processing associated with L2 sentence comprehension along with the N400 as a later component. To this aim, we provided some multisensory input (enriched with data from three (i.e., exvolvement) and five senses (i.e., involvement)) for a list of unfamiliar words to 18 subjects. Subsequently, the words were embedded in an acceptability judgment task with 360 pragmatically correct and incorrect sentences. The task, along with the ERP recording, was conducted after a 1-week consolidation period to track any possible behavioral and electrophysiological distinctions in the retrieval of information with various sense combinations. According to the behavioral results, we found that the combination of five senses leads to more accurate and quicker responses. Based on the electrophysiological results, the combination of five senses induced a larger P200 amplitude compared to the three-sense combination. The implication is that as the sensory weight of the input increases, vocabulary retrieval is facilitated and more attention is directed to the overall comprehension of L2 sentences which leads to more accurate and quicker responses. This finding was not, however, reflected in the neural activity of the N400 component.

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FN400 and LPC Responses to Different Degrees of Sensory Involvement: A Study of Sentence Comprehension

Cited by 12 publications

References 53 publications

Functional Role of the N400 and the P600 in Language-related ERP Studies with Respect to Semantic Processing: An Overview

Functional Role of the N400 and the P600 in Language-related ERP Studies with Respect to Semantic Processing: An Overview

Sensory Emotion in Words: Evidence From an Event-related Potential (ERP) Study in Light of the Emotioncy Model

Multisensory Input Modulates P200 and L2 Sentence Comprehension: A One-Week Consolidation Phase

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