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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.
- Venue
- Science
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- 1980-01-11
- Volume
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- 4427
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- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
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