Year: 1991
Type: article
Abstract: In two experiments, event-related brain potentials were collected as subjects listened to spoken sentences. In the first, all words were presented as connected (natural) speech. In the second, there was a 750-msec interstimulus interval (ISI) separating each of the words. Three types of senten-ending words were used: best completions (contextually meaningful), unrelated anomalies (contextually meaningless), and related anomalies (contextually meaningless but related to the best completion). In both experiments, large N400s were found for the unrelated and related anomalies, relative to those found for the best-completion final words, although the effect was earlier and more prolonged for unrelated anomalies. The auditory N400 effect onset earlier in the natural-speech experiment than it did in either the 750-msec ISI experiment or previous visual studies.
Source: Psychobiology
DOI: 10.3758/bf03332082
Authors: Phillip J. Holcomb, Helen J. Neville
Institutions: Tufts University, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W842093327