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Wen, Yun; Mirault, Jonathan; Grainger, Jonathan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
In 2 ERP experiments participants read 4-word sequences presented for 200 ms (RPVP paradigm) and were required to decide whether the word sequences were grammatical or not. In Experiment 1, the word sequence consisted of either a grammatically correct sentence (e.g., "she can sing now") or an ungrammatical scrambled sequence (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Processing, Grammar, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Midgley, Katherine J.; Holcomb, Phillip J.; Grainger, Jonathan – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011
ERPs were used to explore the different patterns of processing of cognate and noncognate words in the first (L1) and second (L2) language of a population of second language learners. L1 English students of French were presented with blocked lists of L1 and L2 words, and ERPs to cognates and noncognates were compared within each language block. For…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Word Recognition, Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions