Ingmar Brilmayer

TL;DR: Human language enables us to externalise self-internal information (e.g. emotions or beliefs that are not readily accessible to others). Thus, language bridges the gap between the self and the othe...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated neurophysiological correlates of prosodic prominence in German with two EEG experiments Experiment 1 tested different degrees of prominence (three accent types: L+H*, H*, H) and Experiment 2 tested three accent types (L+H, H, H).

TL;DR: The results suggest that the detection of non-linguistic targets defined via complex feature conjunctions in the present study and the Detection of syntactic anomalies share the same underlying processes: attentional shift and memory based matching processes that act upon multi-feature conjunctions.

TL;DR: The attenuated N400 difference for post-focal targets in questions was accompanied by a more enhanced late positivity when they were incongruent, indicating that attentional resources are allocated during updating of speech act information.

TL;DR: This paper explored the relationship between form-to-function mapping and prediction derived from the antecedent of referential expressions in naturalistic auditory language comprehension, i.e., they examined the influence of the interplay of predictions derived from a forward-looking function and the form to function mapping of an anaphor on the ERPs time-locked to anaphoric expressions, and the results in the time range of P300 and N400 allow for a dissociation of these two functions during online language comprehension.