Multiple constraints on semantic integration in a hierarchical   structure: ERP evidence from German

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2011.06.061

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	Multiple constraints on semantic integration in a hierarchical structure: ERP evidence from German
	Zhang, Yang ; Jiang, Xiaoming ; Saalbach, Henrik ; Zhou, Xiaolin
刊名	脑研究
	2011
关键词	Semantic process Syntactic hierarchy Multiple constraints Sentence comprehension N400 P600 ERP EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS SENTENCE COMPREHENSION BRAIN POTENTIALS LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION WORKING-MEMORY INCREMENTAL INTERPRETATION THEMATIC RELATIONSHIPS SYNTACTIC HIERARCHY PARSING ROUTINES MANDARIN-CHINESE
DOI	10.1016/j.brainres.2011.06.061
英文摘要	A recent ERP study on Chinese demonstrated dissociable neural responses to semantic integration processes at different levels of syntactic hierarchy (Zhou et al., 2010). However, it is unclear whether such findings are restricted to a non-case marked language that relies heavily on word order and semantic information for the construction of sentence representation. This study aimed to further investigate, in a case-marked language, how semantic processes in a hierarchical structure take place during sentence reading. We used German sentences with the structure "subject noun + verb + article/determiner + adjective + object noun + prepositional phrase", in which the object noun was constrained either at the lower level by the adjective or at the higher level by the verb, and manipulated the semantic congruency between the adjective and the object noun and/or between the verb and the object noun. EEGs were recorded while participants read sentences and judged for their semantic acceptability. Compared with correct sentences, a biphasic pattern of an N400 effect followed by a late positivity effect was observed on the object noun for sentences with either lower- or higher-level mismatch or with double mismatches. Both the N400 effect and the late positivity (P600) effect were larger for the double mismatch condition than for either of the single mismatch conditions. These findings demonstrate cross-language mechanisms for processing multiple semantic constraints at different levels of syntactic hierarchy during sentence comprehension. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.; http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000295064400009&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701 ; Neurosciences; A&HCI; SCI(E); PubMed; SSCI; 4; ARTICLE; 89-100; 1410
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/162812]
专题	心理与认知科学学院信息科学技术学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Yang,Jiang, Xiaoming,Saalbach, Henrik,et al. Multiple constraints on semantic integration in a hierarchical structure: ERP evidence from German[J]. 脑研究,2011.
APA	Zhang, Yang,Jiang, Xiaoming,Saalbach, Henrik,&Zhou, Xiaolin.(2011).Multiple constraints on semantic integration in a hierarchical structure: ERP evidence from German.脑研究.
MLA	Zhang, Yang,et al."Multiple constraints on semantic integration in a hierarchical structure: ERP evidence from German".脑研究 (2011).