Journal article
Dual-Coding, Context-Availability, and Concreteness Effects in Sentence Comprehension: An Electrophysiological Investigation
Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, v 25(3), pp 721-742
May 1999
PMID: 10368929
Abstract
Event-related potentials were recorded in 2 experiments
while participants read sentences in a word-by-word congruency
judgment task. Sentence final words were either congruent,semantically anomalous (Experiments 1 and 2), or neutral (Experiment
2) with respect to sentence context. Half of all final words
referred to concrete and half to abstract concepts. A different
scalp distribution of the N400 to concrete and abstract final words
was found for anomalous and neutral, but not congruent sentences.
Although the interaction of context and concreteness is consistent
with the context-availability model, the differential scalp
distribution of effects for concrete and abstract words, as well as
larger context effects for concrete words, was interpreted as being
more consistent with an extended dual-code account of semantic
processing.
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Details
- Title
- Dual-Coding, Context-Availability, and Concreteness Effects in Sentence Comprehension
- Creators
- Phillip J Holcomb - Department of Psychology, Tufts UniversityJohn Kounios - Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of PennsylvaniaJane E Anderson - Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical SchoolW. Caroline West - Department of Psychology, Tufts University
- Publication Details
- Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, v 25(3), pp 721-742
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000080553200010
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0033129742
- Other Identifier
- 991014877943804721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Psychology
- Psychology, Experimental