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The Linguistic Processes Underlying the P600
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Gouvea, Ana C.; Phillips, Colin; Kazanina, Nina; Poeppel, David – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
The P600 is an event-related brain potential (ERP) typically associated with the processing of grammatical anomalies or incongruities. A similar response has also been observed in fully acceptable long-distance "wh"-dependencies. Such findings raise the question of whether these ERP responses reflect common underlying processes, and what…
Descriptors: Sentences, Topography, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Processes
A Superficial Resemblance Does not Necessarily Mean You are Part of the Family: Counterarguments to Coulson, King and Kutas (1998) in the P600/SPS-P300 Debate.
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Osterhout, Lee; Hagoort, Peter – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1999
Responds to previous studies on the relationship between event-related brain potential (ERP) responses to linguistic syntactic anomalies and domain-general unexpected events. After reviewing relevant data, this paper concludes that the ERP response to syntactic anomalies is at least partially distinct from the ERP response to unexpected anomalies…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Processing, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics
Neural Correlates of Processing Syntactic, Semantic, and Thematic Relationships in Sentences
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Kuperberg, Gina R.; Caplan, David; Sitnikova, Tatiana; Eddy, Marianna; Holcomb, Phillip J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
Event-related potentials were measured as subjects read sentences presented word by word. A small N400 and a robust P600 effect were elicited by verbs that assigned the thematic role of Agent to their preceding noun-phrase argument when this argument was inanimate in nature. The amplitude of the P600, but not the N400, was modulated by the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Syntax, Semantics, Sentences
Expect the Unexpected: Event-Related Brain Response to Morphosyntactic Violations.
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Coulson, Seana; King, Jonathan W.; Kutas, Marta – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
A study investigated patterns of neurological event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited by morphosyntactic violations in 16 right-handed, English-speaking subjects. Manipulation of stimulus grammaticality and block probability led to ERP effects consistent with those in previous research on syntactic and semantic processing. Results also provide…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Patterns, Language Processing, Language Research