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Words and sentences: Event‐related brain potential measures
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This article found that sentence context has a dramatic effect on single-word processing, and that high and low-frequency words elicit different ERPs at the beginning of sentences but this effect is suppressed by a meaningful sentence context.Citations
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Thinking ahead: The role and roots of prediction in language comprehension.
TL;DR: Results suggest that, when it can, the brain uses context to predict features of likely upcoming items, and that left hemisphere language processing seems to be oriented toward prediction and the use of top-down cues, whereas right hemisphere comprehension is more bottom-up, biased toward the veridical maintenance of information.
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Prediction during language comprehension: Benefits, costs, and ERP components
Cyma Van Petten,Barbara J. Luka +1 more
TL;DR: This survey suggests that late positive responses to unexpected words are fairly common, but that these consist of two distinct components with different scalp topographies, one associated with semantically incongruent words and one associatedwith congruent words.
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Semantic Integration in Sentences and Discourse: Evidence from the N400
TL;DR: It is argued that the findings of ERP experiments investigating how and when the language comprehension system relates an incoming word to semantic representations of an unfolding local sentence and a wider discourse are most compatible with models of language processing in which there is no fundamental distinction between the integration of a word in its local and its global semantic context.
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Psycholinguistics Electrified II (1994–2005)
TL;DR: In 1994, there were only two dominant noninvasive techniques to offer insight about the functional organization of language from its brain bases: the behavior of brain-damaged patients (neuropsychology), and event-related brain potential (ERPs).
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Getting real about Semantic Illusions: Rethinking the functional role of the P600 in language comprehension
TL;DR: It is argued that N400 amplitude might reflect the retrieval of lexical information from memory and, on this view, the absence of an N400-effect in semantic illusion sentences can be explained in terms of priming.
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A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing
TL;DR: The present paper shows how the extended theory can account for results of several production experiments by Loftus, Juola and Atkinson's multiple-category experiment, Conrad's sentence-verification experiments, and several categorization experiments on the effect of semantic relatedness and typicality by Holyoak and Glass, Rips, Shoben, and Smith, and Rosch.
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Individual differences in working memory and reading
TL;DR: The reading span, the number of final words recalled, varied from two to five for 20 college students and was correlated with three reading comprehension measures, including verbal SAT and tests involving fact retrieval and pronominal reference.
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Reading senseless sentences: brain potentials reflect semantic incongruity
Marta Kutas,Steven A. Hillyard +1 more
TL;DR: In a sentence reading task, words that occurred out of context were associated with specific types of event-related brain potentials that elicited a late negative wave (N400).
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