Magnetoencephalography detection of early syntactic processing in humans: comparison between L1 speakers and L2 learners of English

Kubota, Mikio; Ferrari, Paul; Roberts, Timothy P.L.

doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2003.09.019

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“…The present data are in line with several previous studies reporting morphosyntactic ERP effects or magnetic equivalents of these in the 100-200 msec time range in response to violations realized at the local level (e.g., Kubota et al, 2003Kubota et al, , 2004Deutsch & Bentin, 2001). Importantly, the variability of the stimulus material and the equal proportion of correct and incorrect utterances in the current study rule out the possibility that the early latency of similar effects observed in the syntactic MMN studies (Hasting et al, 2007;Menning et al, 2005;Shtyrov et al, 2003) was due to the repetitive nature of the oddball paradigm.…”

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“…Typically, all the violations tested in the syntactic MMN studies were implemented at the local level. Furthermore, the locality hypothesis receives support from studies that used conventional violation paradigms and, nevertheless, observed ERP effects in the time range of the ELAN in response to local gender agreement violations (Deutsch & Bentin, 2001) or an ostensible magnetic equivalent to the ELAN following local violations that did not affect the sentences' phrase structure (Kubota, Ferrari, & Roberts, 2003.…”

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Speeding Up Syntax: On the Relative Timing and Automaticity of Local Phrase Structure and Morphosyntactic Processing as Reflected in Event-related Brain Potentials

Hasting

Kotz

2008

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

103

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Neurolinguistic research utilizing event-related brain potentials (ERPs) typically relates syntactic phrase structure processing to an early automatic processing stage around 150 to 200 msec, whereas morphosyntactic processing is associated with a later and somewhat more attention-dependent processing stage between 300 and 500 msec. However, recent studies have challenged this position by reporting highly automatic ERP effects for morphosyntax in the 100 to 200 msec time range. The present study aimed at determining the factors that could contribute to such shifts in latency and automaticity. In two experiments varying the degree of attention, German phrase structure and morphosyntactic violations were compared in conditions in which the locality of the violated syntactic relation, as well as the violation point and the acoustic properties of the speech stimuli, were strictly controlled for. A negativity between 100 and 300 msec after the violation point occurred in response to both types of syntactic violations and independently of the allocation of attentional resources. These findings suggest that the timing and automaticity of ERP effects reflecting specific syntactic subprocesses are influenced to a larger degree by methodological than by linguistic factors, and thus, need to be regarded as relative rather than fixed to temporally successive processing stages.

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Speeding Up Syntax: On the Relative Timing and Automaticity of Local Phrase Structure and Morphosyntactic Processing as Reflected in Event-related Brain Potentials

Hasting

Kotz

2008

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

103

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“…Syntactic processing: ELANm (110-180 ms) Regarding the ELANm component, our results replicate previous EEG and MEG findings in which syntactically incorrect sentences led to larger brain activation compared to syntactically correct ones (Friederici et al, 1993Knösche et al, 1999;Friederici, 1999, 2002;C. S. Herrmann et al, 2000;Kubota et al, 2003).…”

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“…Herrmann et al, , 2011, other studies suggest a bihemispheric involvement in early syntactic processing (Knösche et al, 1999;C. S. Herrmann et al, 2000;Kubota et al, 2003). Recent findings in fMRI that were explicitly attributed to early syntactic processes showed left and right superior temporal cortices activated in a conventional analysis, while a multivariate pattern classification approach on the same data revealed left-hemispheric regions carrying the syntax-relevant information (B. Herrmann et al, in press).…”

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Syntactic and auditory spatial processing in the human temporal cortex: An MEG study

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“…A few MEG studies have reported activation of superior temporal areas (Kubota et al, 2003; Service et al, 2007) as well as of inferior frontal and anterior temporal regions (Gross et al, 1998a; Friederici et al, 2000) in association with the left-lateralized negativity. In ERP studies on morphological processing, the LAN has been suggested to reflect combinatorial morphological structure building (Penke et al, 1997; Rodriguez-Fornells et al, 2001; Morris and Holcomb, 2005).…”

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Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Processing of Spoken Inflected and Derived Words: A Combined EEG and MEG Study

Leminen

Lehtonen

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Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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The spatiotemporal dynamics of the neural processing of spoken morphologically complex words are still an open issue. In the current study, we investigated the time course and neural sources of spoken inflected and derived words using simultaneously recorded electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) responses. Ten participants (native speakers) listened to inflected, derived, and monomorphemic Finnish words and judged their acceptability. EEG and MEG responses were time-locked to both the stimulus onset and the critical point (suffix onset for complex words, uniqueness point for monomorphemic words). The ERP results showed that inflected words elicited a larger left-lateralized negativity than derived and monomorphemic words approximately 200 ms after the critical point. Source modeling of MEG responses showed one bilateral source in the superior temporal area ∼100 ms after the critical point, with derived words eliciting stronger source amplitudes than inflected and monomorphemic words in the right hemisphere. Source modeling also showed two sources in the temporal cortex approximately 200 ms after the critical point. There, inflected words showed a more systematic pattern in source locations and elicited temporally distinct source activity in comparison to the derived word condition. The current results provide electrophysiological evidence for at least partially distinct cortical processing of spoken inflected and derived words. In general, the results support models of morphological processing stating that during the recognition of inflected words, the constituent morphemes are accessed separately. With regard to derived words, stem and suffix morphemes might be at least initially activated along with the whole word representation.

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Magnetoencephalography detection of early syntactic processing in humans: comparison between L1 speakers and L2 learners of English

Cited by 27 publications

References 14 publications

Speeding Up Syntax: On the Relative Timing and Automaticity of Local Phrase Structure and Morphosyntactic Processing as Reflected in Event-related Brain Potentials

Speeding Up Syntax: On the Relative Timing and Automaticity of Local Phrase Structure and Morphosyntactic Processing as Reflected in Event-related Brain Potentials

Syntactic and auditory spatial processing in the human temporal cortex: An MEG study

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Processing of Spoken Inflected and Derived Words: A Combined EEG and MEG Study

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