TY  - JOUR
A1  - Allefeld, Carsten
A1  - Frisch, Stefan
A1  - Schlesewsky, Matthias
T1  - Detection of early cognitive processing by event-related phase synchronization analysis
N2  - 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
Y1  - 2005
SN  - 0959-4965
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Frisch, Stefan
A1  - Schlesewsky, Matthias
A1  - Wegner, H.
T1  - The interaction of morphological case and word order constraints : Cross-linguistic ERP evidence from German, Russian and Finnish
Y1  - 2005
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Frisch, Stefan
A1  - Schlesewsky, Matthias
T1  - The resolution of case conflicts from a neurophysiological perspective
N2  - 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
Y1  - 2005
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Allefeld, Carsten
A1  - Frisch, Stefan
A1  - Schlesewsky, Matthias
T1  - Detection of early cognitive processing by event-related phase synchronization analysis
N2  - 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. The synchronization analysis shows an effect of global desynchronization in the theta band around 288ms after stimulus presentation for the semantic incongruity, while the physical mismatch elicits an increase of global synchronization in the alpha band around 204ms. Both of these effects clearly precede those in the ERP average. Moreover, the delay between synchronization effect and ERP component correlates with the complexity of the cognitive processes.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - paper 074 
KW  - phase synchronization
KW  - coherence
KW  - semantic incongruity
KW  - color change
KW  - N400
KW  - P300
KW  - theta
KW  - alpha
Y1  - 2005
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-20126
ER  -