Syntactic expectancy: an event-related potentials study

Although extensive work has been conducted in order to study expectancies about semantic information, little effort has been dedicated to the study of the influence of expectancies in the processing of forthcoming syntactic information. The present study tries to examine the issue by presenting part...

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Autores: Hinojosa, José Antonio, Casado, Pilar, Pozo García, Miguel Ángel, Moreno Bella, Eva, Muñoz Ibáñez, Francisco Javier
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2005
País:España
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
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Recognition potential
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spelling Syntactic expectancy: an event-related potentials studyHinojosa, José AntonioCasado, PilarPozo García, Miguel ÁngelMoreno Bella, EvaMuñoz Ibáñez, Francisco JavierEvent-related potentialsSyntactic processingRecognition potentialN400Although extensive work has been conducted in order to study expectancies about semantic information, little effort has been dedicated to the study of the influence of expectancies in the processing of forthcoming syntactic information. The present study tries to examine the issue by presenting participants with grammatically correct sentences of two types. In the first type the critical word of the sentence belonged to the most expected word category type on the basis of the previous context (an article following a verb). In the second sentence type, the critical word was an unexpected but correct word category (an article following an adjective) when a verb is highly expected. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were measured to critical words in both sentence types. Brain waves evoked by the correct but syntactically unexpected word revealed the presence of a negativity with a central distribution around 300–500 ms after stimuli onset, an N400, that was absent in the case of syntactically expected words. No differences were present in previous time windows. These results support models that differentiate between the processing of expected and unexpected syntactic structures.Elseviere-Spacio UNED20242024-05-2020052005-04-1120052005-04-11journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/12706reponame:e-spacio. Repositorio Institucional de la UNEDinstname:Universidad Nacional de Educación a DistanciaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0oai:e-spacio.uned.es:20.500.14468/127062026-06-06T12:38:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Syntactic expectancy: an event-related potentials study
title Syntactic expectancy: an event-related potentials study
spellingShingle Syntactic expectancy: an event-related potentials study
Hinojosa, José Antonio
Event-related potentials
Syntactic processing
Recognition potential
N400
title_short Syntactic expectancy: an event-related potentials study
title_full Syntactic expectancy: an event-related potentials study
title_fullStr Syntactic expectancy: an event-related potentials study
title_full_unstemmed Syntactic expectancy: an event-related potentials study
title_sort Syntactic expectancy: an event-related potentials study
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Hinojosa, José Antonio
Casado, Pilar
Pozo García, Miguel Ángel
Moreno Bella, Eva
Muñoz Ibáñez, Francisco Javier
author Hinojosa, José Antonio
author_facet Hinojosa, José Antonio
Casado, Pilar
Pozo García, Miguel Ángel
Moreno Bella, Eva
Muñoz Ibáñez, Francisco Javier
author_role author
author2 Casado, Pilar
Pozo García, Miguel Ángel
Moreno Bella, Eva
Muñoz Ibáñez, Francisco Javier
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author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv e-Spacio UNED
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Event-related potentials
Syntactic processing
Recognition potential
N400
topic Event-related potentials
Syntactic processing
Recognition potential
N400
description Although extensive work has been conducted in order to study expectancies about semantic information, little effort has been dedicated to the study of the influence of expectancies in the processing of forthcoming syntactic information. The present study tries to examine the issue by presenting participants with grammatically correct sentences of two types. In the first type the critical word of the sentence belonged to the most expected word category type on the basis of the previous context (an article following a verb). In the second sentence type, the critical word was an unexpected but correct word category (an article following an adjective) when a verb is highly expected. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were measured to critical words in both sentence types. Brain waves evoked by the correct but syntactically unexpected word revealed the presence of a negativity with a central distribution around 300–500 ms after stimuli onset, an N400, that was absent in the case of syntactically expected words. No differences were present in previous time windows. These results support models that differentiate between the processing of expected and unexpected syntactic structures.
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