Thirty years and counting: finding meaning in the N400 component of the event-related brain potential (ERP)

M Kutas, KD Federmeier - Annual review of psychology, 2011‏ - annualreviews.org
We review the discovery, characterization, and evolving use of the N400, an event-related
brain potential response linked to meaning processing. We describe the elicitation of N400s …

The cortical language circuit: from auditory perception to sentence comprehension

AD Friederici - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2012‏ - cell.com
Over the years, a large body of work on the brain basis of language comprehension has
accumulated, paving the way for the formulation of a comprehensive model. The model …

A hierarchy of linguistic predictions during natural language comprehension

M Heilbron, K Armeni, JM Schoffelen, P Hagoort… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
Understanding spoken language requires transforming ambiguous acoustic streams into a
hierarchy of representations, from phonemes to meaning. It has been suggested that the …

Large-scale replication study reveals a limit on probabilistic prediction in language comprehension

MS Nieuwland, S Politzer-Ahles, E Heyselaar… - ELife, 2018‏ - elifesciences.org
Do people routinely pre-activate the meaning and even the phonological form of upcoming
words? The most acclaimed evidence for phonological prediction comes from a 2005 Nature …

Word knowledge in a theory of reading comprehension

C Perfetti, J Stafura - Scientific studies of Reading, 2014‏ - Taylor & Francis
We reintroduce a wide-angle view of reading comprehension, the Reading Systems
Framework, which places word knowledge in the center of the picture, taking into account …

[کتاب][B] Language in our brain: The origins of a uniquely human capacity

AD Friederici - 2017‏ - books.google.com
A comprehensive account of the neurobiological basis of language, arguing that species-
specific brain differences may be at the root of the human capacity for language. Language …

Modelling the N400 brain potential as change in a probabilistic representation of meaning

M Rabovsky, SS Hansen, JL McClelland - Nature human behaviour, 2018‏ - nature.com
The N400 component of the event-related brain potential has aroused much interest
because it is thought to provide an online measure of meaning processing in the brain …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of word predictability on reading time is logarithmic

NJ Smith, R Levy - Cognition, 2013‏ - Elsevier
It is well known that real-time human language processing is highly incremental and context-
driven, and that the strength of a comprehender's expectation for each word encountered is …

[HTML][HTML] Event-related potentials index lexical retrieval (N400) and integration (P600) during language comprehension

F Delogu, H Brouwer, MW Crocker - Brain and cognition, 2019‏ - Elsevier
The functional interpretation of two salient language-sensitive ERP components–the N400
and the P600–remains a matter of debate. Prominent alternative accounts link the N400 to …

Getting real about semantic illusions: rethinking the functional role of the P600 in language comprehension

H Brouwer, H Fitz, J Hoeks - Brain research, 2012‏ - Elsevier
In traditional theories of language comprehension, syntactic and semantic processing are
inextricably linked. This assumption has been challenged by the 'Semantic Illusion …