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Direct linkYazbec, Angele; Kaschak, Michael P.; Borovsky, Arielle – Cognitive Science, 2019
Children and adults use established global knowledge to generate real-time linguistic predictions, but less is known about how listeners generate predictions in circumstances that semantically conflict with long-standing event knowledge. We explore these issues in adults and 5- to 10-year-old children using an eye-tracked sentence comprehension…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Processing, Prediction, Adults
Hussey, Erika K.; Harbison, J. Isaiah; Teubner-Rhodes, Susan E.; Mishler, Alan; Velnoskey, Kayla; Novick, Jared M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
Cognitive control refers to adjusting thoughts and actions when confronted with conflict during information processing. We tested whether this ability is causally linked to performance on certain language and memory tasks by using cognitive control training to systematically modulate people's ability to resolve information-conflict across domains.…
Descriptors: Memory, Improvement, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing
Kim, Albert; Sikos, Les – Brain and Language, 2011
Recent ERP studies report that implausible verb-argument combinations can elicit a centro-parietal P600 effect (e.g., "The hearty meal was devouring..."; Kim & Osterhout, 2005). Such eliciting conditions do not involve outright syntactic anomaly, deviating from previous reports of P600. Kim and Osterhout (2005) attributed such P600 effects to…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Semantics, Conflict
Frenzel, Sabine; Schlesewsky, Matthias; Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina – Neuropsychologia, 2011
Conflicts in language processing often correlate with late positive event-related brain potentials (ERPs), particularly when they are induced by inconsistencies between different information types (e.g. syntactic and thematic/plausibility information). However, under certain circumstances, similar sentence-level interpretation conflicts (inanimate…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Conflict, Language Processing
Christianson, Kiel; Luke, Steven G.; Ferreira, Fernanda – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
We report a replication and extension of Ferreira (2003), in which it was observed that native adult English speakers misinterpret passive sentences that relate implausible but not impossible semantic relationships (e.g., "The angler was caught by the fish") significantly more often than they do plausible passives or plausible or implausible…
Descriptors: Adults, Native Speakers, English, Semantics
January, David; Trueswell, John C.; Thompson-Schill, Sharon L. – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2009
For over a century, a link between left prefrontal cortex and language processing has been accepted, yet the precise characterization of this link remains elusive. Recent advances in both the study of sentence processing and the neuroscientific study of frontal lobe function suggest an intriguing possibility: The demands to resolve competition…
Descriptors: Sentences, Figurative Language, Conflict, Language Processing
