PMID- 25511994
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20151124
LR  - 20150224
IS  - 1872-6240 (Electronic)
IS  - 0006-8993 (Linking)
VI  - 1597
DP  - 2015 Feb 9
TI  - The interplay between referential processing and local syntactic/semantic 
      processing: ERPs to written Chinese discourse.
PG  - 139-58
LID - S0006-8993(14)01682-5 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.brainres.2014.12.013 [doi]
AB  - Two event-related brain potential experiments were conducted to investigate the 
      functional interplay between discourse-level referential processing and local 
      syntactic/semantic processing of phrases. We manipulated both the 
      syntactic/semantic coherence of a noun phrase (NP) and the referential ambiguity 
      of the same NP. Incoherence of the NP elicited a P600 effect in both experiments. 
      Referential ambiguities elicited a sustained negativity (Nref) in a subset of the 
      participants in both experiments. Crucially, among participants showing robust 
      Nref effects to referential ambiguity in the coherent condition, Nref effects 
      were absent when the NP was incoherent. These results provide evidence against 
      theories in which referential processing is functionally independent of local 
      syntactic/semantic processing of phrases. Instead, a local phrase anomaly can 
      block aspects of referential processing concerning ambiguity.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Yu, Jing
AU  - Yu J
AD  - Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
FAU - Zhang, Yaxu
AU  - Zhang Y
AD  - Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; Key 
      Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), Peking University, 
      Beijing 100871, China. Electronic address: yxzhang@pku.edu.cn.
FAU - Boland, Julie E
AU  - Boland JE
AD  - Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 525 East University, Ann Arbor, 
      MI 48109-1109, United States.
FAU - Cai, Lin
AU  - Cai L
AD  - Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20141212
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Brain Res
JT  - Brain research
JID - 0045503
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Brain/*physiology
MH  - China
MH  - Comprehension
MH  - Electroencephalography
MH  - Evoked Potentials
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Linguistics
MH  - Male
MH  - Pattern Recognition, Visual/*physiology
MH  - *Reading
MH  - Young Adult
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Discourse context
OT  - Event-related brain potentials
OT  - Language comprehension
OT  - Phrase structure
OT  - Referential ambiguity
OT  - Semantic processing
OT  - Syntactic processing
EDAT- 2014/12/17 06:00
MHDA- 2015/12/15 06:00
CRDT- 2014/12/17 06:00
PHST- 2013/10/17 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/10/17 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2014/12/04 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/12/17 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/12/17 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/12/15 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0006-8993(14)01682-5 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.brainres.2014.12.013 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Brain Res. 2015 Feb 9;1597:139-58. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2014.12.013. Epub 2014 
      Dec 12.