In linguistic theories of how sentences encode meaning, a distinction is often made between
the context-free rule-based combination of lexical-semantic features of the words within a …

We aimed to determine whether semantic relatedness between an incoming word and its
preceding context can override expectations based on two types of stored knowledge: real …

In 1980, the N400 event-related potential was described in association with semantic
anomalies within sentences. When, in 1992, a second waveform, the P600, was reported in …

This study investigates the timing with which lexical representations are deployed at different
levels of the language system, contrasting linguistic aspects of verb argument frames with …

The aim of this study was to determine whether or not the brain distinguishes between two
types of conceptual relationships between noun-phrases (NPs) and verbs during online …

A discourse context provides a reader with a great deal of information that can provide
constraints for further language processing, at several different levels. In this experiment we …

Animacy is often conceived as a special semantic feature because of its relevance to
thematic and syntactic processing. This study uses event-related brain potentials to …

When do listeners take into account who the speaker is? We asked people to listen to
utterances whose content sometimes did not match inferences based on the identity of the …

This paper demonstrates systematic cross-linguistic differences in the electrophysiological
correlates of conflicts between form and meaning (“semantic reversal anomalies”). These …

Since the early 2000s, several event-related potential studies have challenged the
assumption that we always use syntactic contextual information to influence semantic …