Reading Senseless Sentences: Brain Potentials Reflect Semantic Incongruity
- 11 January 1980
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 207 (4427), 203-205
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7350657
Abstract
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.Keywords
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