Lexical versus conceptual anticipation during sentence processing: Frontal positivity and N400 ERP components

Thornhill, Dianne Elia; Petten, Cyma Van

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.12.007

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“…Meanwhile, results in the control comparisons are consistent with previous reports that unexpected but congruent words elicited a larger N400 and a frontal positivity relative to strongly expected words (e.g., Delong, Urbach, Groppe, & Kutas, 2011;Federmeier et al, 2007;Thornhill & Van Petten, 2012). Previous research has proposed that the frontal positivity reflects the suppression or inhibition of a prediction for a different word or concept (Federmeier et al, 2007;Kutas, 1993) and/or learning signal from which to update future predictions (Federmeier, Kutas, & Schul, 2010).…”

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“…This frontally distributed late positivity has been observed in previous studies and has been argued to reflect processes that are triggered when strong predictions are disconfirmed (DeLong, Quante, & Kutas, 2014;Federmeier, Wlotko, De Ochoa-Dewald, & Kutas, 2007;Thornhill & van Petten, 2012;van Petten & Luka, 2012). We will return to discuss the relationship between this late frontal positivity and the P600 in the General Discussion.…”

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“…Previous research has proposed that the frontal positivity reflects the suppression or inhibition of a prediction for a different word or concept (Federmeier et al, 2007;Kutas, 1993) and/or learning signal from which to update future predictions (Federmeier, Kutas, & Schul, 2010). However, existing results have remained mixed with regard to whether the positivity becomes larger when a strong prediction is violated (Federmeier et al, 2007), or if the amplitude of the frontal positivity is reduced when a strongly expected word is encountered (Thornhill & van Petten, 2012). Therefore, future research will be needed to determine exactly how this component is related to predictive processes.…”

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Comprehenders can use rich contextual information to anticipate upcoming input on the fly, but recent findings suggest that salient information about argument roles may not impact verb prediction. We took advantage of the word order properties of Mandarin Chinese to examine the time course with which argument role information impacts verb prediction. We isolated the contribution of argument role information by manipulating the order of pre-verbal noun phrase arguments while holding lexical information constant, and we examined its effects on accessing the verb in long-term semantic memory by measuring the amplitude of the N400 component.Experiment 1 showed when the verb appeared immediately after its arguments, even strongly constraining argument role information failed to modulate the N400 response to the verb. An N400 effect emerged in Experiment 2 when the verb appeared at a greater delay. Experiment 3 corroborated the contrast between the first two experiments through a within-participants manipulation of the time interval between the arguments and the verb, by varying the position of an adverbial phrase. These results suggest time is a key factor governing how diverse contextual information contributes to predictions. Here argument role information is shown to impact verb prediction, but its effect is not immediate.3

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“…We observed an attenuated N400 amplitude for expected compared to semantically related words, and also an attenuated N400 amplitude for semantically related words compared to semantically unrelated words during the 250-450 ms time window. That shows, as 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 previously reported during English sentence comprehension (Federmeier and Kutas, 1999;Federmeier et al, 2002;Thornhill and Van Petten, 2012), that listeners are not only able to predict upcoming words, but also their semantic features, which also allows them to pre-activate semantically related words.…”

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“…Also, and crucially, within-category words elicited smaller N400 amplitudes than between-category words. Federmeier and Kutas (1999) interpreted this gradation as suggesting that the ease with which a word (even if it is not expected) is accessed depends on its semantic similarity to the word expected in a given context (see also Federmeier et al (2002), for an extension in the auditory modality; Thornhill and Van Petten (2012)). …”

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Foreign-accented speech modulates linguistic anticipatory processes

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a b s t r a c tListeners are able to anticipate upcoming words during sentence comprehension, and, as a result, they also pre-activate semantically related words. In the present study, we aim at exploring whether these anticipatory processes are modulated by indexical properties of the speakers, such as a speaker's accent. Event-related brain potentials were obtained while native speakers of Spanish listened to native (Experiment 1) or foreign-accented speakers (Experiment 2) of Spanish producing highly constrained sentences. The sentences ended in: (1) the highest cloze probability completion, (2) a word semantically related to the expected ending, or (3) a word with no semantic overlap with the expected ending. In Experiment 1, we observed smaller N400 mean amplitudes for the semantically related words as compared to the words with no semantic overlap, replicating previous findings. In Experiment 2, we observed no difference in integrating semantically related and unrelated words when listening to accented speech. These results suggest that linguistic anticipatory processes are affected by indexical properties of the speakers, such as the speaker's accent.

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Video summarization using event‐related potential responses to shot boundaries in real‐time video watching

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2018

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Our aim was to develop an event‐related potential (ERP)‐based method to construct a video skim consisting of key shots to bridge the semantic gap between the topic inferred from a whole video and that from its summary. Mayer's cognitive model was examined, wherein the topic integration process of a user evoked by a visual stimulus can be associated with long‐latency ERP components. We determined that long‐latency ERP components are suitable for measuring a user's neuronal response through a literature review. We hypothesized that N300 is specific to the categorization of all shots regardless of topic relevance, N400 is specific for the semantic mismatching process for topic‐irrelevant shots, and P600 is specific for the context updating process for topic‐relevant shots. In our experiment, the N400 component led to more negative ERP signals in response to topic‐irrelevant shots than to topic‐relevant shots and showed a fronto‐central scalp pattern. P600 elicited more positive ERP signals for topic‐relevant shots than for topic‐irrelevant shots and showed a fronto‐central scalp pattern. We used discriminant and artificial neural network (ANN) analyses to decode video shot relevance and observed that the ANN produced particularly high success rates: 91.3% from the training set and 100% from the test set.

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Lexical versus conceptual anticipation during sentence processing: Frontal positivity and N400 ERP components

Cited by 173 publications

References 55 publications

Wait a second! delayed impact of argument roles on on-line verb prediction

Wait a second! delayed impact of argument roles on on-line verb prediction

Foreign-accented speech modulates linguistic anticipatory processes

Video summarization using event‐related potential responses to shot boundaries in real‐time video watching

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