Early Event-related Potential Effects of Syllabic Processing during Visual Word Recognition
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
ERPs Reflect Lexical Identification in Word Fragment Priming
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
First- and Second-language Phonological Representations in the Mental Lexicon
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
On-line orthographic influences on spoken language in a semantic task
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Lexical plasticity in early bilinguals does not alter phoneme categories: Ii. experimental evidence
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Effects of cognate status on word comprehension in second language learners: An erp investigation
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Dissociating n400 effects of prediction from association in single-word contexts
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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In two experiments participants read words and pseudowords that belonged to either large or small lexical neighborhoods while event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded from their scalps. In Experiment 1, participants made speeded lexical decisions to all items, while in Experiment 2 they engaged in a go/no-go semantic categorization task in which the critical items did not require an overt behavioral response. In both experiments, words and pseudowords produced a consistent pattern of ERP effects: items with many lexical neighbors (large neighborhoods) generated larger N400s than similar items with relatively fewer lexical neighbors (small neighborhoods). Reaction time (RT, Experiment 1), on the other hand, showed a different pattern consistent with previous behavioral studies. While words tended to produce a facilitation in RT for larger neighborhoods, pseudowords produced an inhibition effect. The findings are discussed in terms of recent theories of word recognition and the functional significance of the N400.