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Reading Senseless Sentences: Brain Potentials Reflect Semantic Incongruity
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In a sentence reading task, words that occurred out of context were associated with specific types of event-related brain potentials. Words that were physically aberrant (larger than normal) elicited a late positive series of potentials, whereas semantically inappropriate words elicited a late negative wave (N400). The N400 wave may be an electrophysiological sign of the "reprocessing" of semantically anomalous information.
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- Kutas, M., & Hillyard, S. A.
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- Science
- Published
- 1980-01-11
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- 207
- Issue
- 4427
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- 203-205
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- 1095-9203
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