Complement Set Reference after Implicitly Small Quantities: An Event-Related Potentials Study

Syntactic expectancy: an event-related potentials study.

Although extensive work has been conducted in order to study expectancies about semantic information, little effort has been dedicated to the study of the influence of expectancies in the processing of forthcoming syntactic information. The present study tries to examine the issue by presenting participants with grammatically correct sentences of two types. In the first type the critical word o...

Complement Set Reference

Complement set reference

The paper considers the phenomenon of complement anaphora and offers an analysis in the framework of optimality theoretic semantics / pragmatics. I argue that from an interpretation perspective there is a preference for reference to the so-called REFSET over all other sets associated with quantificational structures. Reference to the complement set is thus only possible when two conditions are ...

Reasoning with Exceptions: An Event-related Brain Potentials Study

Defeasible inferences are inferences that can be revised in the light of new information. Although defeasible inferences are pervasive in everyday communication, little is known about how and when they are processed by the brain. This study examined the electrophysiological signature of defeasible reasoning using a modified version of the suppression task. Participants were presented with condi...

Preparatory attention after lesions to the lateral or orbital prefrontal cortex--an event-related potentials study.

The prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a central role in preparatory and anticipatory attentional processes. To investigate whether subregions of the PFC play differential roles in these processes we investigated the effect of focal lesions to either lateral prefrontal (lateral PFC; n=11) or orbitofrontal cortex (OFC; n=13) on the contingent negative variation (CNV), an electrophysiological index of...