Different anaphoric expressions are investigated by event-related brain potentials

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 175-201

  Streb, Judith ^a,b   Hennighausen, Erwin ^a   Rösler, Frank ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b Fachbereich Psychologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaphor resolution; Ellipses; Left anterior negativity (LAN); N400; Pronouns

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; SPEECH;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH; VOCABULARY;

EID: 4644275784     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOPR.0000027961.12577.d8     Document Type: Review

References (49)

1. Anderson, J. E., & Holcomb, P. J. (1995). Auditory and visual semantic priming using different stimulus onset asynchronies: An event-related brain potential study. Psychophysiology, 32, 177-190.
2. Bentin, S., McCarthy, G., & Wood, C. C. (1985). Event-related potentials, lexical decisions and semantic priming. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 60, 343-355.
3. 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(2), 132-149.
4. Chiarello, C. (1991). Interpretation of word meaning by the cerebral hemispheres: One is not enough. In H. A. Whitaker (Ed.), Contemporary Reviews in Neuropsychology (pp. 59-69). New York: Springer-Verlag.
5. Clark, H. H., & Sengul, C. J. (1979). In search of referents for nouns and pronouns. Memory and Cognition, 7, 35-41.
6. Ehrlich, K., & Rayner, K. (1983). Pronoun assignment and semantic integration during reading: Eye-movements and immediacy of processing. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 22, 75-87.
7. Fraurud, K. (1990). Definiteness and the processing of NPs in natural discourse. Journal of Semantics, 7, 395-434.
8. 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.
9. Garrod, S. (1994). Resolving pronouns and other anaphoric devices: The case for diversity in discourse processing. In C. Clifton, L. Frazier, & K. Rayner (Eds.), Perspectives on Sentence Processing (pp. 339-357). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
10. Garrod, S., Freudenthal, D., & Boyle, E. A. (1994). The role of different types of anaphor in the online resolution of sentences in a discourse. Journal of Memory and Language, 33, 39-68.
11. Gernsbacher, M. A. (1989). Mechanisms that improve referential access. Cognition, 32, 99-156.
12. Gernsbacher, M. A. (1990). Language Comprehension as Structure Building. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
13. Green, S. T., McKoon, G., & Ratcliff, R. (1992). Pronoun resolution and discourse models. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 266-283.
14. Hankamer, J., & Sag, I. A. (1976). Deep and surface anaphora. Linguistic Inquiry, 7, 391-426.
15. Hennighausen, E., Heil, M., & Rösler, F. (1993). A correction method for DC drift artifacts. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 86, 199-204.
16. Hofmann, M. (1998). Sprachverstehensprozesse bei unvollständigen Satzstrukturen. In H. Lachnit & F. Rösler (Eds.), Experimentelle Psychologie (p. 140). Lengerich: Papst.
17. Hudson, S. B., Tanenhaus, M. K., & Dell, G. A. (1986). Program of the Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 96-101). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
18. Huynh, H., & Feldt, L. S. (1976). Estimation of the box correction for degrees of freedom from sample data in randomized block and split-plot designs. Journal of Educational Statistics, 1, 69-82.
19. Karayanidis, F., Andrews, S., Ward, P., & McConaghy, N. (1991). Effects of inter-item lag on word repetition: An event-related potential study. Psychophysiology, 28(3), 307-318.
20. 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(3), 376-395.
21. Kintsch, W (1998). Comprehension: A Paradigm for Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
22. Kluender, R., & Kutas, M. (1993a). Bridging the gap: Evidence from ERPs on the processing of unbounded dependencies. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 5(2), 196-214.
23. Kluender, R., & Kutas, M. (1993b). Subjacency as a processing phenomenon. Language and Cognitive Processes, 8, 573-633.
24. Kutas, M. (1997). Views on how the electrical activity that the brain generates reflects the functions of different language structures. Psychophysiology, 34, 383-398.
25. Kutas, M., & Hillyard, S. A. (1980). Reading senseless sentences: Brain potentials reflect semantic incongruity. Science, 207, 203-205.
26. Kutas, M., & Hillyard, S. A. (1984). Brain potentials during reading reflect word expectancy and semantic association. Nature, 307, 161-163.
27. Kutas, M., & Van Petten, C. K. (1994). Psycholinguistics electrified: Event-related brain potentials investigations. In M. A. Gernsbacher (Ed.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics (pp. 83-143). San Diego: Academic Press.
28. Marslen-Wilson, W., & Tyler, L. K. (1980). The temporal structure of spoken language understanding. Cognition, 8, 1-71.
29. Mauner, G., Tanenhaus, M. K., & Carlson, G. N. (1995). A note on parallelism effects in processing deep and surface verb-phrase anaphora. Language and Cognitive Processes, 10(1), 1-12.
30. 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.
31. Murphy, G. L. (1985). Processes of understanding anaphora. Journal of Memory and Language, 24, 290-303.
32. Murphy, G. L. (1990). Interpretation of verb phrase anaphora: Influences of task and syntactic context. The Quaterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 42A, 675-692.
33. Neville, H. J., Mills, D. L., & Lawson, D. S. (1992). Fractionating language: Different neural subsystems with different sensitive periods. Cerebral Cortex, 2, 235-253.
34. Niedeggen, M., & Rösier, F. (1999). N400-effects reflect activation spread during arithmetic fact retrieval. Psychological Science, 10, 271-276.
35. Nigam, A., Huffman, J. E., & Simons, R. F. (1992). N400 to semantically anomalous pictures and words. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 4, 16-22.
36. Osterhout, L., & Mobley, L. A. (1995). Event-related brain potentials elicited by failure to agree. Journal of Memory and Language, 34, 739-773.
37. Rösler, F., Friederici, A., Pütz, P., & Hahne, A. (1993). Event-related brain potentials while encountering semantic and syntactic constraint violations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 5(3), 345-362.
38. Rösler, F., Pechmann, T., Streb, J., Röder, B., & Hennighausen, E. (1998). Parsing of sentences in a language with varying word order: Word-by-word variations of processing demands are revealed by event-related brain potentials. Journal of Memory and Language, 38, 150-176.
39. Rugg, M. D. (1987). Dissociation of semantic priming, word and nonword repetiton by event-related potentials. Quaterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 39A, 123-148.
40. Runchin, D. S., Johnson, R. Jr., & Friedman, D. (1999). Scaling is necessary when making comparisons between shapes of event-related potential topographies: A reply to Haig et al. Psychophysiology, 36, 332-334.
41. Sag, I., & Hankamer, J. (1984). Toward a theory of anaphoric processing. Linguistics and Philosophy, 7, 325-345.
42. Sanford, A. J., Garrod, S. C., Lucas, A., & Henderson, R. (1983). Pronouns without explicit antecedents? Journal of Semantics, 2, 303-318.
43. Silverstein, M. (1976). Hierarchy of features and ergativity. In R. M. W. Dixon (Ed.), Grammatical Categories in Australian Languages, (pp. 112-171). New Jersey: Humanities Press.
44. Streb, J., Rösler, F., & Hennighausen, E. (1999). Event-related responses to pronoun and proper name anaphora in parallel and non-parallel discourse structures. Brain & Language, 70(2), 273-286.
45. Tanenhaus, M. K., & Carlson, G. N. (1990). Comprehension of deep and surface verbphrase anaphors. Language and Cognitive Processes,5(4), 257-280.
46. Tanenhaus, M. K., Carlson, G. N., & Seidenberg, M. S. (1985). Do listeners compute linguistic representations? In D. R. Dowty, L. Karttunen & A. M. Zwicky (Eds.), Natural Language Parsing: Psychological, Computational, and Theoretical Perspectives (pp. 359-408). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
47. van Berkum, J. J. A., Brown, C., & Hagoort, P. (1999). Early referential context effects in sentence processing: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Journal of Memory and Language, 41, 147-182.
48. van Berkum, J., Hagoort, P., & Brown, C. (1999). Semantic integration in sentences and discourse: Evidence from the N400. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 11(6), 657-671.
49. Van Petten, C., & Kutas, M. (1991). Electrophysiological evidence for the flexibility of lexical processing. In G. B. Simpson (Ed.), Understanding Word and Sentence (pp. 129-174). Amsterdam: Elsevier.