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Laszlo, Sarah; Stites, Mallory; Federmeier, Kara D. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
A growing body of evidence suggests that semantic access is obligatory. Several studies have demonstrated that brain activity associated with semantic processing, measured in the N400 component of the event-related brain potential (ERP), is elicited even by meaningless, orthographically illegal strings, suggesting that semantic access is not gated…
Descriptors: Semantics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, Language Processing
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Myung, Jong-yoon; Blumstein, Sheila E.; Sedivy, Julie C. – Cognition, 2006
Two experiments investigated sensory/motor-based functional knowledge of man-made objects: manipulation features associated with the actual usage of objects. In Experiment 1, a series of prime-target pairs was presented auditorily, and participants were asked to make a lexical decision on the target word. Participants made a significantly faster…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Cognitive Processes, Word Recognition, Object Manipulation