A Neurocomputational Model of the N400 and the P600 in Language Processing.

ABSTRACT: Ten years ago, researchers using event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to study language comprehension were puzzled by what looked like a Semantic Illusion: Semantically anomalous, but structurally well-formed sentences did not affect the N400 component-traditionally taken to reflect semantic integration-but instead produced a P600 effect, which is generally linked to syntactic processing. This finding led to a considerable amount of debate, and a number of complex processing models have been proposed as an explanation. What these models have in common is that they postulate two or more separate processing streams, in order to reconcile the Semantic Illusion and other semantically induced P600 effects with the traditional interpretations of the N400 and the P600. Recently, however, these m

SUBMITTER: Brouwer H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5484319 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature