Fractionating the word repetition effect with event-related potentials
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Syntactically based sentence processing classes: Evidence from event-related brain potentials
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
N400 to semantically anomalous pictures and words
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
An event-related potential (erp) analysis of semantic congruity and repetition effects in sentences
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Event-related brain potentials while encountering semantic and syntactic constraint violations
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Global semantic expectancy and language comprehension
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Individual differences in inference generation: An erp analysis
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
The Representation of Polysemy: MEG Evidence
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Pronominal Reference in Sentences about Persons or Things: An Electrophysiological Approach
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Electrophysiological Evidence for Reversed Lexical Repetition Effects in Language Processing
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Distinct Patterns of Neural Modulation during the Processing of Conceptual and Syntactic Anomalies
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
When Peanuts Fall in Love: N400 Evidence for the Power of Discourse
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
The neural integration of speaker and message
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Neurophysiological correlates of comprehending emotional meaning in context
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Monitoring in language perception: Mild and strong conflicts elicit different erp patterns
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Establishing causal coherence across sentences: An erp study
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
The detection and the neural correlates of behavioral (prior) intentions
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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In two ERP experiments we investigated how and when the language comprehension system relates an incoming word to semantic representations of an unfolding local sentence and a wider discourse. In Experiment 1, subjects were presented with short stories. The last sentence of these stories occasionally contained a critical word that, although acceptable in the local sentence context, was semantically anomalous with respect to the wider discourse (e.g., Jane told the brother that he was exceptionally slow in a discourse context where he had in fact been very quick). Relative to coherent control words (e.g., quick), these discourse-dependent semantic anomalies elicited a large N400 effect that began at about 200 to 250 msec after word onset. In Experiment 2, the same sentences were presented without their original story context. Although the words that had previously been anomalous in discourse still elicited a slightly larger average N400 than the coherent words, the resulting N400 effect was much reduced, showing that the large effect observed in stories depended on the wider discourse. In the same experiment, single sentences that contained a clear local semantic anomaly elicited a standard sentence-dependent N400 effect (e.g., Kutas & Hillyard, 1980). The N400 effects elicited in discourse and in single sentences had the same time course, overall morphology, and scalp distribution. We argue that these findings are most compatible with models of language processing in which there is no fundamental distinction between the integration of a word in its local (sentence-level) and its global (discourse-level) semantic context.