Abstract
Event-related potentials were recorded in a sentence reading paradigm. Sentences were either terminated by a semantically and grammatically appropriate word (word from a different grammatical class syntactic error), a semantically inappropriate word (semantic error) or a semantically appropriate word with a wrong case inflection (morphosyntactic error). For all three types of errors the event-related potential was characterized by a negativity in the 250-600 ms range (N400). The possible implications of these findings for models of sentence processing are discussed. It is concluded that the results strongly support interactive models of sentence processing.
| Translated title of the contribution | Event-related brain potentials reflect semantic, syntactic, and morphosyntactic errors during sentence processing |
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| Original language | German |
| Journal | EEG-EMG Zeitschrift fur Elektroenzephalographie Elektromyographie und Verwandte Gebiete |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Pages (from-to) | 75-81 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISSN | 0012-7590 |
| Publication status | Published - 01.01.1990 |
Research Areas and Centers
- Academic Focus: Center for Brain, Behavior and Metabolism (CBBM)
