Parafoveal N400 effect during sentence reading

Horacio A. Barber; Nuria Doñamayor; Marta Kutas; Thomas Münte

doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2010.05.053

Parafoveal N400 effect during sentence reading

Horacio A. Barber^*, Nuria Doñamayor, Marta Kutas, Thomas Münte

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Neurology

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Abstract

Research has suggested that during reading, parafoveal information pertaining to the next word in a line might be, at least partially, processed. We used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to examine this issue. Volunteers read sentences presented word-by-word at fixation with each word flanked bilaterally on its right by the next word in the sentence and on its left by the preceding word. Infrequently, the right flanker was replaced by a word that was semantically incongruous with the ongoing sentence context. N400 amplitudes to the critical triads were smaller when the right flanker was contextually congruent than incongruent, indicating that parafoveal information was extracted and quickly and incrementally integrated within the evolving sentence representation.

Original language	English
Journal	Neuroscience Letters
Volume	479
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	152-156
Number of pages	5
ISSN	0304-3940
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2010.05.053
Publication status	Published - 01.07.2010

Funding

Horacio A. Barber was funded by the “Ramón y Cajal” program and the grant SEJ2007-67364 of the Spanish Ministry of Science . Nuria Doñamayor is supported by a fellowship of DAAD/”la Caixa”. Marta Kutas was supported by the grant HD22614 from the US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development , and the grant AG08313 from the National Institute of Aging .

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