Native-language N400 and P600 predict dissociable language-learning abilities in adults.

ABSTRACT: Language learning aptitude during adulthood varies markedly across individuals. An individual's native-language ability has been associated with success in learning a new language as an adult. However, little is known about how native-language processing affects learning success and what neural markers of native-language processing, if any, are related to success in learning. We therefore related variation in electrophysiology during native-language processing to success in learning a novel artificial language. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while native English speakers judged the acceptability of English sentences prior to learning an artificial language. There was a trend towards a double dissociation between native-language ERPs and their relationships to novel syntax an

SUBMITTER: Qi Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5885768 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature