Expectancy effects in the EEG during joint and spontaneous word-by-word sentence production in German.

ABSTRACT: Our aim in the present study is to measure neural correlates during spontaneous interactive sentence production. We present a novel approach using the word-by-word technique from improvisational theatre, in which two speakers jointly produce one sentence. This paradigm allows the assessment of behavioural aspects, such as turn-times, and electrophysiological responses, such as event-related-potentials (ERPs). Twenty-five participants constructed a cued but spontaneous four-word German sentence together with a confederate, taking turns for each word of the sentence. In 30% of the trials, the confederate uttered an unexpected gender-marked article. To complete the sentence in a meaningful way, the participant had to detect the violation and retrieve and utter a new fitting response. We found

SUBMITTER: Goregliad Fjaellingsdal T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7096441 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature