Matthias Schlesewsky

TL;DR: A neurocognitive model of online comprehension that accounts for cross-linguistic unity and diversity in the processing of core constituents (verbs and arguments) and can derive the appearance of similar neurophysiological and neuroanatomical processing correlates in seemingly disparate structures in different languages.

TL;DR: It is argued that potency to act is lexically encoded for individual nouns and, since it modulates the N400 even for non-actor participants, it should be viewed as a property that modulates ease of lexical access (akin, for example, to lexical frequency).

TL;DR: A new perspective is provided on semantic P600 effects by showing how they can be derived within an independently motivated, hierarchically organised neurocognitive model of language comprehension in which syntactic structuring precedes argument interpretation (the extended Argument Dependency Model, eADM; Bornkessel and Schlesewsky, 2006).

TL;DR: Hemodynamic responses elicited while participants processed German indirect wh‐questions strongly suggest that Broca's area plays a critical role in syntactic working memory during online sentence comprehension.

TL;DR: In this article, participants processed case-unambiguous German subject and object WH-questions with either a long or short distance between the WH-filler and its gap, and a sustained left anterior negativity was observed for object questions with long filler-gap distance but not for short object questions.