Bm. Schmitt et al., Electrophysiological estimates of semantic and syntactic information access during tacit picture naming and listening to words, NEUROSCI RE, 41(3), 2001, pp. 293-298
We investigated the relative time courses of the accessibility of semantic
and syntactic information in speaking and comprehension via event-related b
rain potentials (ERPs). Native German speakers either viewed a series of pi
ctures (tacit picture naming experiment) or heard a series of nouns (listen
ing experiment) and made dual choice go/nogo decisions based on each item's
semantic and syntactic features. N200 peak latency results indicate that a
ccess to meaning has temporal precedence over access to syntactic informati
on in both speaking ( similar to 80 ms) and comprehension ( similar to 70 m
s), and are discussed in the context of current psycholinguistic theories.
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