Early referential context effects in sentence processing: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

JJA Van Berkum, CM Brown, P Hagoort - Journal of memory and language, 1999 - Elsevier
An event-related brain potentials experiment was carried out to examine the interplay of
referential and structural factors during sentence processing in discourse. Subjects read …

Dissociating brain responses to syntactic and semantic anomalies: Evidence from event-related potentials

K Ainsworth-Darnell, HG Shulman, JE Boland - Journal of Memory and …, 1998 - Elsevier
Two experiments investigated the influence of anomaly type and presentation rate on the
occurrence and appearance of the event-related brain potentials (ERPs) known as the N400 …

Language-related ERPs: Scalp distributions and modulation by word type and semantic priming

AC Nobre, G McCarthy - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 1994 - direct.mit.edu
Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from the scalp to investigate the processing
of word stimuli. Three tasks were used:(1) a task comparing words that provided an …

An electrophysiological analysis of animacy effects in the processing of object relative sentences

J Weckerly, M Kutas - Psychophysiology, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Event‐related brain potentials (ERPs) were used to investigate how and when a semantic
factor (animacy) affects the early analysis of a difficult syntactic structure, namely, object …

Brain signatures of syntactic and semantic processes during children's language development

A Hahne, K Eckstein, AD Friederici - Journal of cognitive …, 2004 - direct.mit.edu
Developmental aspects of language comprehension were investigated using event-related
brain potentials. Children between the ages of 6 and 13 listened to passive sentences that …

The lateral distribution of event-related potentials during sentence processing

M Kutas, SA Hillyard - Neuropsychologia, 1982 - Elsevier
Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded from adults as they read 160 different
sentences, half of which ended with a semantically anomalous word. These deviant words …

Event-related brain potentials during natural speech processing: Effects of semantic, morphological and syntactic violations

AD Friederici, E Pfeifer, A Hahne - Cognitive brain research, 1993 - Elsevier
The present study investigated different aspects of auditory language comprehension. The
sentences which were presented as connected speech were either correct or incorrect …

Electrophysiological evidence for serial sentence processing: A comparison between non-preferred and ungrammatical continuations

E Kaan, TY Swaab - Cognitive Brain Research, 2003 - Elsevier
Event-related potentials (ERPs) were used to address a much debated issue in sentence
processing research, namely whether one or multiple interpretations are pursued in case of …

Involvement of cognitive control in sentence comprehension: Evidence from ERPs

Z Ye, X Zhou - Brain Research, 2008 - Elsevier
This study investigates the reanalysis processes as a consequence of conflict between
incompatible sentential representations in sentence comprehension. Using the event …

Brain potentials and syntactic violations revisited: No evidence for specificity of the syntactic positive shift

TF Münte, HJ Heinze, M Matzke, BM Wieringa… - Neuropsychologia, 1998 - Elsevier
One of the current issues in the investigation of language by means of event-related brain
potentials (ERPs) is whether there is an ERP effect that can be specifically related to the …