论文信息 - Reading senseless sentences: brain potentials reflect semantic incongruity.

Reading senseless sentences: brain potentials reflect semantic incongruity.

In a sentence reading task, words that occurred out of context were associated with specific types of event-related brain potentials. Words that were physically aberrant (larger than normal) elecited a late positive series of potentials, whereas semantically inappropriate words elicited a late negative wave (N400). The N400 wave may be an electrophysiological sign of the "reprocessing" of semantically anomalous information.

M. Kutas | S. Hillyard

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