Processing the universal quantifier during sentence comprehension: ERP   evidence

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.02.020

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	Processing the universal quantifier during sentence comprehension: ERP evidence
	Jiang, Xiaoming ; Tan, Yingying ; Zhou, Xiaolin
刊名	neuropsychologia
	2009
关键词	Sentence comprehension Universal quantifier ERP Sustained negativity Sustained positivity EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS BRAIN POTENTIALS LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION WORKING-MEMORY ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION SEMANTIC DEMENTIA NEURAL MECHANISMS COGNITIVE CONTROL PARSING ROUTINES
DOI	10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.02.020
英文摘要	This study investigates the temporal neural dynamics of processing the Chinese universal quantifier dou during Chinese sentence comprehension using the event-related potential (ERP) technique. Universal quantifier violations were created when the universal quantifier dou (all, every) was misplaced either after a singular object noun phrase (NP) in a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) sentence (Experiments 1 and 3) or after a singular subject NP in a SVO sentence (Experiment 2). Participants were asked to make semantic plausibility judgment (Experiments 1 and 2) or to comprehend sentences real time followed by a sentence recognition test at the end of the experiment (Experiment 3). Experiment 1 found that quantifier violations elicited a sustained positivity from 400 to 1100 ms post-onset of the quantifier and a sustained negativity from 300 to 800 ms post-onset of the following verb. Experiment 2 varied the distance between dou and the following verb by the presence or absence of an adverb between them. Again, the sustained positivity was observed on the mismatching quantifier; in addition, a sustained negativity was observed on the word immediately following the quantifier, regardless of whether this word was a verb or adverb. Experiment 3 used the same stimuli as Experiment I but with a different task. The quantifier violation elicited anteriorly distributed negativities over different time intervals post-onset of the quantifier. The sustained positivity is interpreted as being associated with an integration process that links the universal quantifier with the preceding entity. The sustained negativity is attributed to a second-pass process to reinterpret the sentence. Other functional interpretations of the ERP components were discussed and ruled out. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.; http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000266701600004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701 ; Behavioral Sciences; Neurosciences; Psychology, Experimental; SCI(E); PubMed; SSCI; 16; ARTICLE; 8-9; 1799-1815; 47
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/162856]
专题	心理与认知科学学院信息科学技术学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jiang, Xiaoming,Tan, Yingying,Zhou, Xiaolin. Processing the universal quantifier during sentence comprehension: ERP evidence[J]. neuropsychologia,2009.
APA	Jiang, Xiaoming,Tan, Yingying,&Zhou, Xiaolin.(2009).Processing the universal quantifier during sentence comprehension: ERP evidence.neuropsychologia.
MLA	Jiang, Xiaoming,et al."Processing the universal quantifier during sentence comprehension: ERP evidence".neuropsychologia (2009).