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Decomposing Animacy Reversals between Agents and Experiencers: An ERP Study
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Bourguignon, Nicolas; Drury, John E.; Valois, Daniel; Steinhauer, Karsten – Brain and Language, 2012
The present study aimed to refine current hypotheses regarding thematic reversal anomalies, which have been found to elicit either N400 or--more frequently--"semantic-P600" (sP600) effects. Our goal was to investigate whether distinct ERP profiles reflect aspectual-thematic differences between Agent-Subject Verbs (ASVs; e.g., "to eat") and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Nouns, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Not All Ambiguous Words Are Created Equal: An EEG Investigation of Homonymy and Polysemy
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Klepousniotou, Ekaterini; Pike, G. Bruce; Steinhauer, Karsten; Gracco, Vincent – Brain and Language, 2012
Event-related potentials (ERPs) were used to investigate the time-course of meaning activation of different types of ambiguous words. Unbalanced homonymous ("pen"), balanced homonymous ("panel"), metaphorically polysemous ("lip"), and metonymically polysemous words ("rabbit") were used in a visual single-word priming delayed lexical decision task.…
Descriptors: Priming, Figurative Language, Vocabulary, Diagnostic Tests
On the Early Left-Anterior Negativity (ELAN) in Syntax Studies
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Steinhauer, Karsten; Drury, John E. – Brain and Language, 2012
Within the framework of Friederici's (2002) neurocognitive model of sentence processing, the early left anterior negativity (ELAN) in event-related potentials (ERPs) has been claimed to be a brain marker of syntactic first-pass parsing. As ELAN components seem to be exclusively elicited by word category violations (phrase structure violations),…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phrase Structure, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Neurological Organization