Event-related brain potentials and case information in syntactic ambiguities

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 264-280

  Hopf, Jens Max ^a,b   Bayer, Josef ^a   Bader, Markus ^a   Meng, Michael ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Clinic for Neurophysiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0031896954     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892998562690     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Bader, M. (1994a). Sprachverstehen: Syntax und prosodie beim lesen [Language processing: Syntax and prosody in reading]. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart.
2. Bader, M. (1994b). Syntactic-function ambiguities. Folia Linguistica, 28, 5-66.
3. Bauer, H., Korunka, C., & Leodolter, M. (1989). Technical requirements for high-quality scalp DC-recordings. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 72, 545-547.
4. Bayer, J., & Marslen-Wilson, W. (1993). Configurationality in the light of language comprehension: The order of arguments in German. Unpublished manuscript, University of Vienna & Birkbeck College, London.
5. Besson, M., & Kutas, M. (1993). The many facets of repetition: A cued-recall and event-related potential analysis of repeating in same versus different sentence contexts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 19, 1115-1133.
6. Besson, M., Kutas, M., & Van Petten, C. (1992). An event-related potential (ERP) analysis of semantic congruity and repetition effects in sentences. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 4, 132-148.
7. Brown, C., & Hagoort, P. (1993). The processing nature of the N400: Evidence from masked priming. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 5, 34-44.
8. Chomsky, N. (1995). The minimalist program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
9. Chwilla, D. J., Brown, C., & Hagoort, P. (1995). The N400 as a function of the level of processing. Psychophysiology, 32, 274-285.
10. Frazier, L. (1978). On comprehending sentences: Syntactic parsing strategies. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Connecticut.
11. Frazier, L. (1987). Syntactic processing: Evidence from Dutch. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 5, 519-560.
12. Frazier, L., & Rayner, K. (1982). Making and correcting errors during sentence comprehension: Eye movements in the analysis of structurally ambiguous sentences. Cognitive Psychology, 14, 178-210.
13. Friederici, A. D. (1995). The time course of syntactic activation during language processing: A model based on neuropsychological and neurophysiological data. Brain and Language, 50, 259-281.
14. Friederici, A. D., & Mecklinger, A. (1996). Syntactic parsing as revealed by brain responses: First-pass and second-pass parsing processes. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 25, 157-176.
15. Friederici, A. D., Pfeifer, E., & Hahne, A. (1993). Event-related brain potentials during natural speech processing: Effects of semantic, morphological and syntactic violations. Cognitive Brain Research, 1, 183-192.
16. Friedman, D., Simson, R., Ritter, W., & Rapin, I. (1975). The late positive component (P300) and information processing in sentences. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 38, 225-262.
17. Garnsey, S. M., Tanenhaus, M. K., & Chapman, R. M. (1989). Evoked potentials and the study of sentence comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 18, 51-60.
18. Gibson, E. (1991). A computational theory of human linguistic processing. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
19. Gorrell, P. (1987). Studies of human sentence processing: Ranked parallel versus serial models. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Connecticut.
20. Hagoort, P., Brown, C., & Groothusen, J. (1993). The syntactic positive shift (SPS) as an ERP-measure of syntactic processing. Language and Cognitive Processes, 8, 439-483.
21. Halgren, E. (1990). Insights from evoked potentials into the neuropsychological mechanisms of reading. In A. B. Scheibel & A. F. Wechsler (Eds.), Neurobiology of higher cognitive function (pp. 103-149).
22. Hemforth, B. (1993). Kognitives parsing: Repräsentation und verarbeitung grammatischen wissens [Cognitive parsing: Representation and processing of grammatical knowledge] Sankt Augustin: Infix Verlag.
23. Huynh, H., & Feldt, L. S. (1976). Estimation of the Box correction for degrees of freedom for sample data in the randomized block and split plot designs. Journal of Educational Statistics, 1, 69-82.
24. Jasper, H. H. (1958). The ten-twenty electrode system of the International Federation. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 10, 370-375.
25. King, J. W., & Kutas, M. (1995). Who did what and when? Using word- and clause-level ERPs to monitor working memory usage in reading. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 7, 376-395.
26. Kluender, R., & Kutas, M. (1993). Bridging the gap: Evidence from ERPs on the processing of unbounded dependencies. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 5, 196-214.
27. Kutas, M., & Hillyard, S. A. (1980). Reading senseless sentences: Brain potentials reflect semantic incongruity. Science, 207, 203-205.
28. Kutas, M., & Hillyard, S. A. (1984). Brain potentials during reading reflect word expectancy and semantic association. Nature, 307, 161-163.
29. Kutas, M., & Kluender, R. (1994). What is who violating? A reconsideration of linguistic violations in light of event-related brain potentials. In H.-J. Heinze, T. F. Münte, & G. R. Mangun (Eds.), Cognitive electrophysiology. Boston: Birkhäuser.
30. Kutas, M., & Van Petten, C. K. (1994). Psycholinguistics electrified: Event-related brain potential investigations. In M. A. Gernsbacher (Ed.), Handhook of psycholinguistics (pp. 83-143). San Diego: Academic Press.
31. Kutas, M., Van Petten, C., & Besson, M. (1988). Event-related potential asymmetries during the reading of sentences. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 69, 218-233.
32. Lang, M., Lang, W., Uhl, F., Kornhuber, A., Deecke, L., & Kornhuber, H. H. (1987). Slow negative potential shifts indicating verbal cognitive learning in a concept formation task. Human Neurobiology, 6, 183-190.
33. Marcus, M. (1980). A theory of syntactic recognition for natural language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
34. McCarthy, G., & Wood, C. C. (1985). Scalp distributions of event-related potentials: An ambiguity associated with analysis of variance models. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 62, 203-208.
35. Mecklinger, A., Schriefers, H., Steinhauer, K., & Friederici, A. D. (1995). Processing relative clauses varying on syntactic and semantic dimensions: An analysis with event-related potentials. Memory & Cognition, 23, 477-494.
36. Münte, T. F., & Heinze, H.-J. (1994). ERP negativities during syntactic processing of written words. In H.-J. Heinze, T. F. Münte, & G. R. Mangun (Eds.), Cognitive electrophysiology (pp. 211-238). Boston: Birkhäuser.
37. Neville, H., Nicol, J. L., Barss, A., Forster, K. I., & Garrett, M. F. (1991). Syntactically based sentence processing classes: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 3, 151-165.
38. Osterhout, L. (1994). Event-related brain potentials as tools for comprehending language comprehension. In C. Clifton, L. Frazier, & K. Rayner (Eds.), Perspectives on sentence processing (pp. 15-44). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
39. Osterhout, L., & Holcomb, P. J. (1992). Event-related potentials elicited by syntactic anomaly. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 785-806.
40. Osterhout, L., & Holcomb, P. J. (1995). Event-related potentials and language comprehension. In M. D. Rugg & M. G. H. Cooles (Eds.), Electrophysiology of mind. Event-related potentials and cognition (pp. 171-215). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
41. Osterhout, L., Holcomb, P. J., & Swinney, D. A. (1994). Brain potentials elicited by garden-path sentences: Evidence of the application of verb information during parsing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 786-803.
42. Osterhout, L., & Mobley, L. A. (1995). Event-related brain potentials elicited by failure to agree. Journal of Memory and Language, 34, 739-773.
43. Rösler, F., Pütz, P., Friederici, A. D., & Hahne, A. (1993). Event-related brain potentials while encountering semantic and syntactic constraint violations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 5, 345-362.
44. Ruchkin, D. S., Johnson, J. R., Mahaffey, D., & Sutton, S. (1988). Toward a functional categorization of slow waves. Psychophysiology, 25, 339-353.
45. Ruchkin, D. S., Johnson, R., Canoune, H., & Ritter, W. (1990). Short-term memory storage and retention: An event-related brain potential study. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 76, 419-439.
46. Ruchkin, D. S., Johnson, R., Grafman, J., Canoune, H., & Ritter, W. (1992). Distinctions and similarities among working memory processes: An event-related potential study. Cognitive Brain Research, 1, 53-66.
47. Rugg, M. (1990). Event-related brain potentials dissociate repetition effects of high- and low-frequency words. Memory & Cognition, 18, 367-379.
48. Semlitsch, H. V., Anderer, P., Schuster, P., & Presslich, O. (1986). A solution for reliable and valid reduction of ocular artifacts applied to the R300 ERP. Psycbopbysiology, 23, 695-703.
49. Van Petten, C. (1995). Words and sentences: Event-related brain potential measures. Psychophysiology, 32, 511-525.
50. Van Petten, C., & Kutas, M. (1990). Interactions between sentence context and word frequency in event-related brain potentials. Memory & Cognition, 18, 380-393.
51. Van Retten, C., & Kutas, M. (1991). Influences of semantic and syntactic context on open- and closed-class words. Memory & Cognition, 19, 95-112.
52. Weinberg, A. (1993). Parameters in the theory of sentence processing: Minimal commitment theory goes east. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 22, 338-364.