Investigating the Comprehension of Negated Sentences Employing World Knowledge: An Event-Related Potential Study.

ABSTRACT: Previous event-related potential (ERP) studies comparing affirmative and negative sentences revealed an N400 for semantically mismatching final words, resulting in a larger N400 for false relative to true affirmative sentences and an opposite effect for negative sentences. Hence, the N400 was independent of the presence of a negation. However, the true negative as well as the false affirmative condition often contained entities or features from different semantic categories and thereby with weak feature overlap, such as e.g., A cat is (not) a saw or Fears are (not) round, which were then compared to true affirmative and false negative sentences containing entities with stronger feature overlap and partially even hyponomy relations, e.g., A cat is (not) an animal or

SUBMITTER: Haase V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6843029 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature