Abstract
We investigated the relative time courses of the accessibility of semantic and syntactic information in speaking and comprehension via event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Native German speakers either viewed a series of pictures (tacit picture naming experiment) or heard a series of nouns (listening experiment) and made dual choice go/nogo decisions based on each item's semantic and syntactic features. N200 peak latency results indicate that access to meaning has temporal precedence over access to syntactic information in both speaking (∼80 ms) and comprehension (∼70 ms), and are discussed in the context of current psycholinguistic theories.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Neuroscience Research |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Pages (from-to) | 293-298 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISSN | 0168-0102 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 31.10.2001 |
Funding
The research reported in this paper was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the San Diego McDonnell-Pew Cognitive Neuroscience Institute and a grant of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to BMS, DFG grant MU1311/7-1 to TFM, a grant of the Spanish government to ARF, and grants HD22614 and AG08313 to M. Kutas. We thank Marjolein Meeuwissen and Joel Reithler for collecting the data for the second experiment. Appendix A
Research Areas and Centers
- Academic Focus: Center for Brain, Behavior and Metabolism (CBBM)
