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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
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Caplan, David; Walters, Gloria S. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
The functional architecture of the verbal processing resource system was studied by testing aphasic patients in Canada and Boston for their abilities to use syntactic structure in sentence comprehension in isolation and under dual-task conditions. Results indicate that the processing resource system underlying syntactic processing is separate from…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Aphasia, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes