TY  - GEN
A1  - Lago, Sol
A1  - Namyst, Anna
A1  - Jäger, Lena Ann
A1  - Lau, Ellen
T1  - Antecedent access mechanisms in pronoun processing
BT  - evidence from the N400
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Previous cross-modal priming studies showed that lexical decisions to words after a pronoun were facilitated when these words were semantically related to the pronoun’s antecedent. These studies suggested that semantic priming effectively measured antecedent retrieval during coreference. We examined whether these effects extended to implicit reading comprehension using the N400 response. The results of three experiments did not yield strong evidence of semantic facilitation due to coreference. Further, the comparison with two additional experiments showed that N400 facilitation effects were reduced in sentences (vs. word pair paradigms) and were modulated by the case morphology of the prime word. We propose that priming effects in cross-modal experiments may have resulted from task-related strategies. More generally, the impact of sentence context and morphological information on priming effects suggests that they may depend on the extent to which the upcoming input is predicted, rather than automatic spreading activation between semantically related words.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 568 
KW  - coreference
KW  - semantic priming
KW  - event-related potentials
KW  - sentence comprehension
KW  - N400
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-433237
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 568
SP  - 641
EP  - 661
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
A1  - Paulmann, Silke
A1  - Budd, Mary-Jane
A1  - Barry, Christopher
T1  - Morphological encoding beyond slots and fillers
BT  - an ERP study of comparative formation in English
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - One important organizational property of morphology is competition. Different means of expression are in conflict with each other for encoding the same grammatical function. In the current study, we examined the nature of this control mechanism by testing the formation of comparative adjectives in English during language production. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded during cued silent production, the first study of this kind for comparative adjective formation. We specifically examined the ERP correlates of producing synthetic relative to analytic comparatives, e.g. angriervs. more angry. A frontal, bilaterally distributed, enhanced negative-going waveform for analytic comparatives (vis-a-vis synthetic ones) emerged approximately 300ms after the (silent) production cue. We argue that this ERP effect reflects a control mechanism that constrains grammatically-based computational processes (viz. more comparative formation). We also address the possibility that this particular ERP effect may belong to a family of previously observed negativities reflecting cognitive control monitoring, rather than morphological encoding processes per se.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 550 
KW  - event-related potentials
KW  - brain potentials
KW  - language production
KW  - word production
KW  - past-tense
KW  - electrophysiological evidence
KW  - cognitive control
KW  - single word
KW  - time-course
KW  - adjectives
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-426481
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 550
ER  -