Domain-general conflict monitoring predicts neural and behavioral indices of linguistic error processing during reading comprehension.

ABSTRACT: The ability to detect and respond to linguistic errors is critical for successful reading comprehension, but these skills can vary considerably across readers. In the current study, healthy adults (age 18-35) read short discourse scenarios for comprehension while monitoring for the presence of semantic anomalies. Using a factor analytic approach, we examined if performance in nonlinguistic conflict monitoring tasks (Stroop, AX-CPT) would predict individual differences in neural and behavioral measures of linguistic error processing. Consistent with this hypothesis, domain-general conflict monitoring predicted both readers' end-of-trial acceptability judgments and the amplitude of a late neural response (the P600) evoked by linguistic anomalies. The influence on the P600 was nonlinear, sugg

SUBMITTER: Brothers T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9888606 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature