TY  - JOUR
A1  - Räling, Romy
A1  - Holzgrefe-Lang, Julia
A1  - Schröder, Astrid
A1  - Wartenburger, Isabell
T1  - On the influence of typicality and age of acquisition on semantic processing: Diverging evidence from behavioural and ERP responses
JF  - Neuropsychologia : an international journal in behavioural and cognitive neuroscience
N2  - Various behavioural studies show that semantic typicality (TYP) and age of acquisition (AOA) of a specific word influence processing time and accuracy during the performance of lexical-semantic tasks. This study examines the influence of TYP and AOA on semantic processing at behavioural (response times and accuracy data) and electrophysiological levels using an auditory category-member-verification task. Reaction time data reveal independent TYP and AOA effects, while in the accuracy data and the event-related potentials predominantly effects of TYP can be found. The present study thus confirms previous findings and extends evidence found in the visual modality to the auditory modality. A modality-independent influence on semantic word processing is manifested. However, with regard to the influence of AOA, the diverging results raise questions on the origin of AOA effects as well as on the interpretation of offline and online data. Hence, results will be discussed against the background of recent theories on N400 correlates in semantic processing. In addition, an argument in favour of a complementary use of research techniques will be made. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
KW  - Event-related potentials
KW  - N400
KW  - Semantic typicality
KW  - Age of acquisition
KW  - Semantic priming
KW  - Category verification
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.05.031
SN  - 0028-3932
SN  - 1873-3514
VL  - 75
SP  - 186
EP  - 200
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -