@article{AllefeldFrischSchlesewsky2005, author = {Allefeld, Carsten and Frisch, Stefan and Schlesewsky, Matthias}, title = {Detection of early cognitive processing by event-related phase synchronization analysis}, issn = {0959-4965}, year = {2005}, abstract = {In order to investigate the temporal characteristics of cognitive processing, we apply multivariate phase synchronization analysis to event-related potentials. The experimental design combines a semantic incongruity in a sentence context with a physical mismatch (color change). In the ERP average, these result in an N400 component and a P300-like positivity, respectively. Synchronization analysis shows an effect of global desynchronization in the theta band around 288 ms after stimulus presentation for the semantic incongruity, while the physical mismatch elicits an increase of global synchronization in the alpha band around 204 ms. Both of these effects clearly precede those in the ERP aver-age. Moreover, the delay between synchronization effect and ERP component correlates with the complexity Of the cognitive processes. (C) 2005 Lippincott Williams Wilkins}, language = {en} } @article{FrischSchlesewskyWegner2005, author = {Frisch, Stefan and Schlesewsky, Matthias and Wegner, H.}, title = {The interaction of morphological case and word order constraints : Cross-linguistic ERP evidence from German, Russian and Finnish}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @article{FrischSchlesewsky2005, author = {Frisch, Stefan and Schlesewsky, Matthias}, title = {The resolution of case conflicts from a neurophysiological perspective}, year = {2005}, abstract = {We present two ERP experiments examining the resolution of language processing conflicts involving the multidimensional linguistic feature case, which determines processing in both syntactic and interpretive respects. Ungrammatical German structures with two identically case-marked arguments (double subject or double object constructions) were tested. In earlier studies, double subject constructions have been shown to elicit a biphasic pattern consisting of an N400 effect (a marker of thematic integration problems) followed by a P600 effect (a marker of syntactic ill-formedness). Here, we compare double nominative (subject case) constructions with double datives (indirect object case; Experiment 1) and double accusatives (direct object case; Experiment 2). All types of double case ungrammaticalities elicited a biphasic N400-P600 response. However, double datives differed from double nominatives in that they elicited a larger P600, suggesting that the ill-formedness is more salient in structures with two dative arguments. Double accusatives, by contrast, elicited a stronger N400 in comparison to double nominatives, suggesting that they induce more severe semantic-thematic integration problems. The results demonstrate that the human language comprehension system is sensitive to fine grained linguistic distinctions between different cases and utilizes these in its attempts to solve processing conflicts. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved}, language = {en} } @article{FrischBeimGrabenSchlesewsky2004, author = {Frisch, Stefan and Beim Graben, Peter and Schlesewsky, Matthias}, title = {Parallelizing grammatical functions : P600 and P345 reflect different cost of reanalysis}, issn = {0218-1274}, year = {2004}, abstract = {It is well-known from psycholinguistic literature that the human language processing system exhibits preferences when sentence constituents are ambiguous with respect to their grammatical function. Generally, many theories assume that an interpretation towards the subject is preferred in such cases. Later disambiguations which contradict such a preference induce enhanced processing difficulty (i.e. reanalysis) which reflects itself in late positive deflections (P345/P600) in event-related brain potentials (ERPs). In the case of phoric elements such as pronouns, a second strategy is known according to which an ambiguous pronoun preferentially receives the grammatical function that its antecedent has (parallel function strategy). In an ERP study, we show that this strategy can in principle override the general subject preference strategy (known for both pronominal and nonpronominal constituents) and induce an object preference, in case that the pronoun's antecedent is itself an object. Interestingly, the revision of a subject preference leads to a P600 component, whereas the revision of an object preference induces an earlier positivity (P345). In order to show that the latter component is indeed a positivity and not an N400-like negativity in the same time range, we apply an additional analysis based on symbolic dynamics which allows to determine the polarity of an ERP effect on purely methodological grounds. With respect to the two positivities, we argue that the latency differences reflect qualitative differences in the reanalysis processes}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Schlesewsky1996, author = {Schlesewsky, Matthias}, title = {Kasusph{\"a}nomene in der Sprachverarbeitung : eine Studie zur Verarbeitung von kasusmarkierten und Relativsatzkonstruktionen im Deutschen}, pages = {III, 173 S. : Ill.}, year = {1996}, language = {de} } @article{BeimGrabenSaddySchlesewskyetal.2000, author = {Beim Graben, Peter and Saddy, Douglas and Schlesewsky, Matthias and Kurths, J{\"u}rgen}, title = {Symbolic dynamics of event-related brain potentials}, year = {2000}, language = {en} } @article{SaddySchlesewskyBeimGraben1999, author = {Saddy, Douglas and Schlesewsky, Matthias and Beim Graben, Peter}, title = {Cylinder Entropies and Case resolution}, year = {1999}, language = {en} } @article{SaddyBeimGrabenSchlesewsky1999, author = {Saddy, Douglas and Beim Graben, Peter and Schlesewsky, Matthias}, title = {Cortical Dynamics of Language Processes}, year = {1999}, language = {en} } @article{SaddyBeimGrabenSchlesewsky1999, author = {Saddy, Douglas and Beim Graben, Peter and Schlesewsky, Matthias}, title = {Measuring entropy during language processing}, year = {1999}, language = {en} } @article{BornkesselSchlesewskySchlesewsky2019, author = {Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina D. and Schlesewsky, Matthias}, title = {Is it a bird? Is it a mammal?}, series = {Of trees and birds. A Festschrift for Gisbert Fanselow}, journal = {Of trees and birds. A Festschrift for Gisbert Fanselow}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-457-9}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-43253}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-432534}, pages = {275 -- 286}, year = {2019}, language = {en} }