Publication year
2003Source
Cognitive Brain Research, 16, 1, (2003), pp. 38-50ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

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SW OZ DCC CO
SW OZ DCC BO
Former Organization
SW OZ NICI CO
F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
Journal title
Cognitive Brain Research
Volume
vol. 16
Issue
iss. 1
Page start
p. 38
Page end
p. 50
Subject
110 000 Neurocognition of Language; PsycholinguisticsAbstract
In two studies subjects were required to read Dutch sentences that in some cases contained a syntactic violation, in other cases a semantic violation. All syntactic violations were word category violations. The design excluded differential contributions of expectancy to influence the syntactic violation effects. The syntactic violations elicited an Anterior Negativity between 300 and 500 ms. This negativity was bilateral and had a frontal distribution. Over posterior sites the same violations elicited a P600/SPS starting at about 600 ms. The semantic violations elicited an N400 effect. The topographic distribution of the AN was more frontal than the distribution of the classical N400 effect, indicating that the underlying generators of the AN and the N400 are, at least to a certain extent, non-overlapping. Experiment 2 partly replicated the design of Experiment 1, but with differences in rate of presentation and in the distribution of items over subjects, and without semantic violations. The word category violations resulted in the same effects as were observed in Experiment 1, showing that they were independent of some of the specific parameters of Experiment 1. The discussion presents a tentative account of the functional differences in the triggering conditions of the AN and the P600/SPS. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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