N400-effects to task-irrelevant environmental sounds: Further evidence for obligatory conceptual processing

Orgs, Guido; Lange, Kathrin; Dombrowski, Jan-Henryk; Heil, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2008.03.005

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“…Additionally, the distribution of the compatibility effect indicated clear dissociations between T2 physical versus T1 linguistic and T3 imagery . Whereas T2 physical shows an anterior-posterior distribution of the matchmismatch effect, the T1 linguistic and T3 imagery conditions show an N400-like component with a central maximum (see Orgs et al, 2006Orgs et al, , 2007Orgs et al, , 2008Van Petten & Rheinfelder, 1995). Additional analysis of the difference waveforms (mismatch minus match) supported these findings (see Appendix C, Figure 12).…”

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“…Thus, the sentence condition might have resulted in a similar pattern as the imagery condition, whereas in other task setups these effects might not occur automatically during sentence reading. However, in previous studies by Orgs et al (2007Orgs et al ( , 2008, it was shown that cross-modal match-mismatch effects occur under various task conditions, even when participants only had to indicate whether a sound was presented on the left or the right side. Thus, we would argue that it is not the specific task that resulted in the observed effects in the sentence task.…”

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“…Effects on sound processing were observed as early as 180-220 ms in both the linguistic (T1 linguistic ) (see Orgs et al, 2006Orgs et al, , 2007Orgs et al, , 2008Van Petten & Rheinfelder, 1995) and the imagery (T3 imagery ) condition. However, these effects clearly differentiate from the effect observed in the physical control condition (T2 physical ) that served as a perceptual baseline condition.…”

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The Sounds of Sentences: Differentiating the Influence of Physical Sound, Sound Imagery, and Linguistically Implied Sounds on Physical Sound Processing

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Mackenzie

Strozyk

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Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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Both the imagery literature and grounded models of language comprehension emphasize the tight coupling of high-level cognitive processes, such as forming a mental image of something or language understanding, and low-level sensorimotor processes in the brain. In an electrophysiological study, imagery and language processes were directly compared and the sensory associations of processing linguistically implied sounds or imagined sounds were investigated. Participants read sentences describing auditory events (e.g., BThe dog barks^), heard a physical (environmental) sound, or had to imagine such a sound. We examined the influence of the 3 sound conditions (linguistic, physical, imagery) on subsequent physical sound processing. Event-related potential (ERP) difference waveforms indicated that in all 3 conditions, prime compatibility influenced physical sound processing. The earliest compatibility effect was observed in the physical condition, starting in the 80-110 ms time interval with a negative maximum over occipital electrode sites. In contrast, the linguistic and the imagery condition elicited compatibility effects starting in the 180-220 ms time window with a maximum over central electrode sites. In line with the ERPs, the analysis of the oscillatory activity showed that compatibility influenced early theta and alpha band power changes in the physical, but not in the linguistic and imagery, condition. These dissociations were further confirmed by dipole localization results showing a clear separation between the source of the compatibility effect in the physical sound condition (superior temporal area) and the source of the compatibility effect triggered by the linguistically implied sounds or the imagined sounds (inferior temporal area). Implications for grounded models of language understanding are discussed.

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The Sounds of Sentences: Differentiating the Influence of Physical Sound, Sound Imagery, and Linguistically Implied Sounds on Physical Sound Processing

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Strozyk

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“…In particular, the processing of semantic and category-related information is represented as N400 amplitude, which is an important neurophysiological index for semantic memory organization and conceptual learning [32][33][34] . Mothers who often use tactile-related words could have greater accessibility to the semantic meanings of tactile-related words, and they showed larger differential ERPs between IDS-congruent and IDS-incongruent conditions in the late latencies.…”

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Mothers' multimodal information processing is modulated by multimodal interactions with their infants

Tanaka¹,

Fukushima

Okanoya

et al. 2014

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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“…Previous studies pointed out that P300 and N400 were the attention indexes in slow ERPs. P300 is mainly associated with the effort of target identification [20,21], while N400 is usually present in the semantic task, and reflects the distractor inhibiting and semantic mismatch [22][23][24]. In the current experiment, we questioned which ERP indicators could be the result of the process of paying attention to relevant items and ignoring irrelevant items as guided by the instructions.…”

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Attention and available long-term memory in an activation-based model

Liu

Guo

2010

Sci. China Life Sci.

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The influence of attention on memorizing related items and on available long-term memory (ALTM) was explored, showing that N400 of no-memory items was more negative than that of the memory item. The results of the category comparison task indicated that information processing under attention-driven in WM determined the availability of related long-term memory, i.e., specific content, which was formerly concerned or ignored, yielding different indirect semantic priming effects. These indicate that the orientation of conceptual attention leads the related representations of LTM to diverse activation patterns, supporting the activation-based model.

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N400-effects to task-irrelevant environmental sounds: Further evidence for obligatory conceptual processing

Cited by 32 publications

References 21 publications

The Sounds of Sentences: Differentiating the Influence of Physical Sound, Sound Imagery, and Linguistically Implied Sounds on Physical Sound Processing

The Sounds of Sentences: Differentiating the Influence of Physical Sound, Sound Imagery, and Linguistically Implied Sounds on Physical Sound Processing

Mothers' multimodal information processing is modulated by multimodal interactions with their infants

Attention and available long-term memory in an activation-based model

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