Human brain potentials to reading syntactic errors in sentences of different complexity

Thomas F. Münte; Andras Szentkuti; Bernardina M. Wieringa; Mike Matzke; Sönke Johannes

doi:10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00719-2

Human brain potentials to reading syntactic errors in sentences of different complexity

Thomas F. Münte^*, Andras Szentkuti, Bernardina M. Wieringa, Mike Matzke, Sönke Johannes

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Abstract

In order to determine if an event-related brain potential (ERP) effect described for syntactic violations (P600/SPS) varies with the amount of reprocessing entailed by a violation, number incongruencies were presented either within simple declarative or within subordinate clauses. ERPs were recorded while 12 German subjects read the stimulus materials presented word by word on a video monitor. The ERPs showed a P600/SPS effect for all sentence types, which was smallest in amplitude and earliest in latency for simple declarative sentences. This effect therefore qualifies as a metric for the amount and timing of syntactic reprocessing entailed by a syntactic error. In addition, a late frontal negativity (1000-1400 ms range) was found for the simple declarative sentences.

Original language	English
Journal	Neuroscience Letters
Volume	235
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	105-108
Number of pages	4
ISSN	0304-3940
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00719-2
Publication status	Published - 17.10.1997

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The technical assistance of J. Kilian is gratefully acknowledged. This work was supported by a grant from the Hermann and Lilly Schilling Foundation to T.F.M.

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Academic Focus: Center for Brain, Behavior and Metabolism (CBBM)

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