Neurophysiological correlates of automatic integration of voice and gender information during grammatical processing.

ABSTRACT: During verbal communication, interlocutors rely on both linguistic (e.g., words, syntax) and extralinguistic (e.g., voice quality) information. The neural mechanisms of extralinguistic information processing are particularly poorly understood. To address this, we used EEG and recorded event-related brain potentials while participants listened to Russian pronoun-verb phrases presented in either male or female voice. Crucially, we manipulated congruency between the grammatical gender signaled by the verbs' ending and the speakers' apparent gender. To focus on putative automatic integration of extralinguistic information into syntactic processing and avoid confounds arising from secondary top-down processes, we used passive non-attend auditory presentation with visual distraction and no stimu

SUBMITTER: Alekseeva M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9339001 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature