Amplitude of N400 component unaffected by lexical priming for moderately constraining sentences

Elvira Khachatryan; Marijn van Vliet; Simon De Deyne; Gerrit Storms; Hovhannes Manvelyan; Marc M. Van Hulle

doi:10.1109/CIP.2014.6844516

Amplitude of N400 component unaffected by lexical priming for moderately constraining sentences

Elvira Khachatryan^*, Marijn van Vliet, Simon De Deyne, Gerrit Storms, Hovhannes Manvelyan, Marc M. Van Hulle

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Abstract

The N400 is an event-related potential (ERP) that reflects the processing of semantics in the brain. When reading sentences, the N400 amplitude is modulated by both the cloze probability of the sentence and the association strength between individual words. When contradicted in strongly constraining sentences, that is, the beginning of the sentence builds a strong expectation of the final word; the cloze probability overrules the effect of association strength. We evidence that this is also the case for non-constraining sentences, such as the ones with low to moderate cloze probabilities. Our results give the evidences that if the sentence generates even weak to moderate expectations about the final word, word association plays almost no role in the processing of this word.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	4th International Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing - Proceedings of CIP 2014
Publisher	IEEE
ISBN (Print)	9781479936960
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CIP.2014.6844516
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2014
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	International Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing - Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 26 May 2014 → 28 May 2014 Conference number: 4

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Workshop	International Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing
Abbreviated title	CIP
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Copenhagen
Period	26/05/2014 → 28/05/2014

Keywords

cloze task
N400
sentence-level context
word association

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Khachatryan, E, van Vliet, M, De Deyne, S, Storms, G, Manvelyan, H & Van Hulle, MM 2014, Amplitude of N400 component unaffected by lexical priming for moderately constraining sentences. in 4th International Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing - Proceedings of CIP 2014., 6844516, IEEE, International Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing, Copenhagen, Denmark, 26/05/2014. https://doi.org/10.1109/CIP.2014.6844516

Amplitude of N400 component unaffected by lexical priming for moderately constraining sentences. / Khachatryan, Elvira; van Vliet, Marijn; De Deyne, Simon et al.
4th International Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing - Proceedings of CIP 2014. IEEE, 2014. 6844516.

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