Cross-modal symbolic processing can elicit either an N2 or a protracted N2/N400 response
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A cross-modal symbolic paradigm was used to elicit EEG activity related to semantic incongruence. Twenty-five undergraduate students viewed pairings of visual lexical cues (e.g., DOG) with congruent (50% of trials) or incongruent (50%) auditory nonlexical stimuli (animal vocalizations; e.g., sound of a dog woofing or a cat meowing). In one condition, many different pairs of congruent/incongruent stimuli were shown, whereas in a second condition only two pairs of stimuli were repeatedly shown. A typical N400-like pattern of incongruence-related activity (including activity in the N2 time window) was evident in the condition using many stimuli, whereas the incongruence-related activity in the two-stimuli condition was confined to differential N2-like activity. A supplementary analysis excluded stimulus characteristics as the source of this differential activity between conditions. We found that a single individual performing a fixed task can demonstrate either a protracted N400-like pattern of activity or a more temporally focused N2-like pattern of activity in response to the same stimulus, which suggests that the N2 may be a precursor to the protracted N400 response.
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A likely explanation for the observed P2 and P3 results involves the N2 component, whose spatial and temporal distribution typically overlaps with that of the P2.
“A likely explanation for the observed results in these later components involves another ERP component, the N2, whose spatial and temporal distribution typically overlaps with that of the P2 (Griffiths et al., 2016).”
From Neurophysiological evidence of efference copies to inner speech (2017) · cites this paper as Griffiths et al., 2016
In the two inner speech conditions of the present study, participants made a mental response, possibly a template-matching response about whether the audible phoneme matched their inner phoneme, which they did not make in the Passive condition.
“We suggest that, in the two inner speech conditions of our study, participants made a mental response – possibly a ‘template-matching response’ along the lines of whether the audible phoneme matched their inner phoneme (Griffiths et al., 2016) – which they did not make in the Passive condition.”
From Neurophysiological evidence of efference copies to inner speech (2017) · cites this paper as Griffiths et al., 2016
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- Authors
- Griffiths, O., Le Pelley, M. E., Jack, B. N., Luque, D., & Whitford, T. J.
- Affiliations
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- School of Psychology UNSW Australia Sydney Australia
- Corresponding author
- Griffiths, Oren
- Venue
- Psychophysiology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2016-03-23
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1044-1053
- ISSN
- 0048-5772 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8986
- OpenAlex
- W2312011197
- Cited by
- 3
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
- 2020: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 0.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Psychophysiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Flinders Academic Commons (Flinders University) (acceptedVersion)
- Flinders Academic Commons (Flinders University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Australian Research Council (DP140104394, DE150100667, FT100100260)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Keywords
- semantic incongruence, N2, N400, event-related potentials, lexical-semantic processing, animal vocalizations, congruency effect, stimulus familiarity
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Adolescent, Adult, Auditory Perception, Cerebral Cortex, Electroencephalography, Evoked Potentials, Humans, Photic Stimulation, Semantics, Visual Perception, Young Adult
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