PMID- 19428412
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20090810
LR  - 20091111
IS  - 1873-3514 (Electronic)
IS  - 0028-3932 (Linking)
VI  - 47
IP  - 8-9
DP  - 2009 Jul
TI  - Processing the universal quantifier during sentence comprehension: ERP evidence.
PG  - 1799-815
LID - 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.02.020 [doi]
AB  - This study investigates the temporal neural dynamics of processing the Chinese 
      universal quantifier dou during Chinese sentence comprehension using the 
      event-related potential (ERP) technique. Universal quantifier violations were 
      created when the universal quantifier dou (all, every) was misplaced either after 
      a singular object noun phrase (NP) in a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) sentence 
      (Experiments 1 and 3) or after a singular subject NP in a SVO sentence 
      (Experiment 2). Participants were asked to make semantic plausibility judgment 
      (Experiments 1 and 2) or to comprehend sentences real time followed by a sentence 
      recognition test at the end of the experiment (Experiment 3). Experiment 1 found 
      that quantifier violations elicited a sustained positivity from 400 to 1100ms 
      post-onset of the quantifier and a sustained negativity from 300 to 800ms 
      post-onset of the following verb. Experiment 2 varied the distance between dou 
      and the following verb by the presence or absence of an adverb between them. 
      Again, the sustained positivity was observed on the mismatching quantifier; in 
      addition, a sustained negativity was observed on the word immediately following 
      the quantifier, regardless of whether this word was a verb or adverb. Experiment 
      3 used the same stimuli as Experiment 1 but with a different task. The quantifier 
      violation elicited anteriorly distributed negativities over different time 
      intervals post-onset of the quantifier. The sustained positivity is interpreted 
      as being associated with an integration process that links the universal 
      quantifier with the preceding entity. The sustained negativity is attributed to a 
      second-pass process to reinterpret the sentence. Other functional interpretations 
      of the ERP components were discussed and ruled out.
FAU - Jiang, Xiaoming
AU  - Jiang X
AD  - Department of Psychology, Center for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Peking 
      University, Beijing, China.
FAU - Tan, Yingying
AU  - Tan Y
FAU - Zhou, Xiaolin
AU  - Zhou X
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20090221
PL  - England
TA  - Neuropsychologia
JT  - Neuropsychologia
JID - 0020713
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Analysis of Variance
MH  - Brain Mapping
MH  - Comprehension/*physiology
MH  - Concept Formation/*physiology
MH  - Electroencephalography/methods
MH  - Evoked Potentials/*physiology
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Reaction Time/physiology
MH  - *Semantics
MH  - Time Factors
MH  - Verbal Behavior/*physiology
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2009/05/12 09:00
MHDA- 2009/08/11 09:00
CRDT- 2009/05/12 09:00
PHST- 2008/08/28 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2009/01/27 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2009/02/09 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2009/05/12 09:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/05/12 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/08/11 09:00 [medline]
AID - S0028-3932(09)00086-4 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.02.020 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Neuropsychologia. 2009 Jul;47(8-9):1799-815. doi: 
      10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.02.020. Epub 2009 Feb 21.