The Automatic but Flexible and Content-Dependent Nature of Syntax.

ABSTRACT: Syntactic processing has often been considered an utmost example of unconscious automatic processing. In this line, it has been demonstrated that masked words containing syntactic anomalies are processed by our brain triggering event related potential (ERP) components similar to the ones triggered by conscious syntactic anomalies, thus supporting the automatic nature of the syntactic processing. Conversely, recent evidence also points out that regardless of the level of awareness, emotional information and other relevant extralinguistic information modulate conscious syntactic processing too. These results are also in line with suggestions that, under certain circumstances, syntactic processing could also be flexible and context-dependent. However, the study of the concomitant automatic bu

SUBMITTER: Jimenez-Ortega L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8226263 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature