Predicting form and meaning: Evidence from brain potentials
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Predicting form and meaning: Evidence from brain potentials
We used ERPs to investigate the pre-activation of form and meaning in language comprehension. Participants read high-cloze sentence contexts (e.g., ‘‘The student is going to the library to borrow a. . .”), followed by a word that was predictable (book), form-related (hook) or semantically related (page) to the predictable word, or unrelated (sofa). At a 500 ms SOA (Experiment 1), semantically r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Memory and Language
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0749-596X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2015.10.007