Is second best good enough? An EEG study on the effects of word expectancy in sentence comprehension

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Sentence comprehension can be facilitated when readers anticipate the upcoming word. Notwithstanding, it remains uncertain if only most expected word is anticipated, as postulated by serial graded hypothesis, or all probable words are pre-activated, proposed parallel probabilistic hypothesis. To test these contrasting accounts, we compared processing of and unexpected with second-best words, i.e. second in a sentence. The results, from 30 participants, revealed facilitation effect for indexed N400 mean amplitude, which was least negative intermediate words. Post-N400 Positivity analysis did not reveal any significant effects. found suggests that pre-activate multiple candidates during sentence comprehension.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Language, cognition and neuroscience

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['2327-3798', '2327-3801']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.1955140