Pragmatic inferences modulate N400 during sentence comprehension: Evidence from picture–sentence verification
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Pragmatic inferences modulate N400 during sentence comprehension: evidence from picture-sentence verification.
The present study examines the online realization of pragmatic meaning using event-related potentials (ERPs). Participants read sentences including the English quantifier some, which has both a semantic meaning (at least one) and a pragmatic meaning (not all). Unlike previous ERP studies of this phenomenon, sentences in the current study were evaluated not in terms of their truth with respect t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuroscience Letters
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0304-3940
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.11.044