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 |
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| Journal | Neuroscience Letters |
| Volume | 479 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Pages (from-to) | 152-156 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISSN | 0304-3940 |
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| 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 .
Research Areas and Centers
- Academic Focus: Center for Brain, Behavior and Metabolism (CBBM)
