Title of article :
Effects of prediction and contextual support on lexical processing: Prediction takes precedence
Author/Authors :
Brothers، نويسنده , , Trevor and Swaab، نويسنده , , Tamara Y. and Traxler، نويسنده , , Matthew J.، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2015
Pages :
15
From page :
135
To page :
149
Abstract :
Readers may use contextual information to anticipate and pre-activate specific lexical items during reading. However, prior studies have not clearly dissociated the effects of accurate lexical prediction from other forms of contextual facilitation such as plausibility or semantic priming. In this study, we measured electrophysiological responses to predicted and unpredicted target words in passages providing varying levels of contextual support. This method was used to isolate the neural effects of prediction from other potential contextual influences on lexical processing. While both prediction and discourse context influenced ERP amplitudes within the time range of the N400, the effects of prediction occurred much more rapidly, preceding contextual facilitation by approximately 100 ms. In addition, a frontal, post-N400 positivity (PNP) was modulated by both prediction accuracy and the overall plausibility of the preceding passage. These results suggest a unique temporal primacy for prediction in facilitating lexical access. They also suggest that the frontal PNP may index the costs of revising discourse representations following an incorrect lexical prediction.
Keywords :
N400 , Prediction , sentence processing , event-related potentials , N250
Journal title :
Cognition
Serial Year :
2015
Journal title :
Cognition
Record number :
2078341
Link To Document :
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