What's in a pause: event-related potential analysis of temporal disruptions in written and spoken sentences

Besson, Mireille; Faïta, Frédérique; Czternasty, Claire; Kutas, Marta

doi:10.1016/s0301-0511(96)05215-5

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“…The present auditory N400 syllable and rime effects clearly do not exhibit such a significant and substantial inter-hemispheric asymmetry, but just a nonsignificant trend to rightlateralization in the posterior occipital region for rime overlap on words (see Figure 3). A far less apparent paradoxical lateralization, never statistically significant, appears in fact an unconditional contrasting feature of N400 effects in spoken (compared to written) words, even when as in the present experiment potential biases like participant-and family-handedness (see Kutas, Hillyard, et al, 1988 are controlled for (e.g., Besson et al, 1997;Van Petten & Rheinfelder, 1995;Bentin et al, 1993;Praamstra & Stegeman, 1993;Praamstra et al, 1994). The scalp distributions reported in this paper thus indicate statistically equal contributions of the hemispheres to final phonological priming N400 effects.…”

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“…A negative component peaking at 400 msec (N400) after target onset has been shown to reflect semantic processing. The reduction in the amplitude of the N400 correlated with semantic priming, first described for printed words in sentential and single word contexts (Nobre & McCarthy, 1994;Besson, Kutas, & Van Petten, 1992;Bentin, McCarthy, & Wood, 1985;Rugg, 1985;Kutas & Hillyard, 1980), was later replicated for spoken words, where it was found to begin earlier and to be of longer duration (Besson, Faita, Czternasty, & Kutas, 1997;Ford et al, 1996;Bentin, Kutas, & Hillyard, 1993;Holcomb & Neville, 1990;McCallum, Farmer, & Pocock, 1984). The sensitivity of the N400 rapidly turned out to be not restricted to semantic congruency.…”

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Behavioral and Electrophysiological Study of Phonological Priming between Bisyllabic Spoken Words

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Benraiss

Barriol

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Abstract& Phonological priming between bisyllabic (CV.CVC) spoken items was examined using both behavioral (reaction times, RTs) and electrophysiological (event-related potentials, ERPs) measures. Word and pseudoword targets were preceded by pseudoword primes. Different types of final phonological overlap between prime and target were compared. Critical pairs shared the last syllable, the rime or the coda, while unrelated pairs were used as controls. Participants performed a target shadowing task in Experiment 1 and a delayed lexical decision task in Experiment 2. RTs were measured in the first experiment and ERPs were recorded in the second experiment. The RT experiment was carried out under two presentation conditions. In Condition 1 both primes and targets were presented auditorily, while in Condition 2 the primes were presented visually and the targets auditorily. Priming effects were found in the unimodal condition only. RTs were fastest for syllable overlap, intermediate for rime overlap, and slowest for coda overlap and controls that did not differ from one another. ERPs were recorded under unimodal auditory presentation. ERP results showed that the amplitude of the auditory N400 component was smallest for syllable overlap, intermediate for rime overlap, and largest for coda overlap and controls that did not differ from one another. In both experiments, the priming effects were larger for word than for pseudoword targets. These results are best explained by the combined influences of nonlexical and lexical processes, and a comparison of the reported effects with those found in monosyllables suggests the involvement of rime and syllable representations. &

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Behavioral and Electrophysiological Study of Phonological Priming between Bisyllabic Spoken Words

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Barriol

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…A reduction in the amplitude of the N400 associated with semantic priming was first described in sentence contexts (Kutas and Hillyard, 1980;Besson et al, 1992;Mitchell et al, 1993) and later in single word contexts (Bentin et al, 1985;Nobre and McCarthy, 1994). For spoken language, where ERP data are still relatively scarce, a N400 reduction associated with semantic priming has also been reported (Holcomb and Neville, 1990;Bentin et al, 1993;Besson et al, 1997).…”

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Semantic, repetition and rime priming between spoken words: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

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Besson

Fonteneau

et al. 1998

Biological Psychology

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Semantic, phonological and repetition priming for auditorily presented words were examined, using both behavioral reaction times (RTs) and electrophysiological event-related potentials (ERPs) measures. On critical trials, a word prime was followed by a word target that was semantically or phonologically related (rime) or not related (control) to the prime. Pairs of word-pseudoword items served as fillers. Participants were asked to respond to word targets in the RT experiment and to pseudowords in the ERP experiment. In each experiment stimuli were presented once and then repeated in the very same way. RTs were found to be fastest for semantic, intermediate for rime and slowest for control targets; large repetition effects occurred for all targets. ERPs results showed that both semantic and phonological priming influenced the same component, namely the N400, whose amplitude was smallest to semantic, intermediate to rime and largest to control targets; repetition effects were only found for semantic trials.

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“…The horizontal electro-oculogram was recorded from electrodes placed at the outer canthi. Electrodes also were placed supra-orbitally under each eye in 2 Broca's area sites were located at the midpoint of the line between Ž .…”

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Event-related potentials elicited by spoken relative clauses

Müller

King

Kutas

1997

Cognitive Brain Research

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Ž. Sentence-length event-related potential ERP waveforms were obtained from 23 scalp sites as 24 subjects listened to normally spoken sentences of various syntactic structures. The critical materials consisted of 36 sentences each containing one of two types of relative Ž . Ž . clauses that differ in processing difficulty, namely Subject Object SO and Subject Subject SS relative clauses. Sentence-length ERPs showed several differences in the slow scalp potentials elicited by SO and SS sentences that were similar in their temporal dynamics to those elicited by the same stimuli in a word-by-word reading experiment, although the effects in the two modalities have non-identical distributions. Just as for written sentences, there was a large, fronto-central negativity beginning at the linguistically defined ''gap'' in the SO sentences; this effect was largest for listeners with above-median comprehension rates and is hypothesized to index changes in on-line processing demands during comprehension.Ž .

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What's in a pause: event-related potential analysis of temporal disruptions in written and spoken sentences

Cited by 57 publications

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Behavioral and Electrophysiological Study of Phonological Priming between Bisyllabic Spoken Words

Behavioral and Electrophysiological Study of Phonological Priming between Bisyllabic Spoken Words

Semantic, repetition and rime priming between spoken words: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

Event-related potentials elicited by spoken relative clauses

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