Reading senseless sentences: brain potentials reflect semantic incongruity

作者: M Kutas , S. Hillyard

DOI: 10.1126/SCIENCE.7350657

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摘要: 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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