In traditional theories of language comprehension, syntactic and semantic processing are
inextricably linked. This assumption has been challenged by the 'Semantic Illusion …

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 …

Ten years ago, researchers using event‐related brain potentials (ERPs) to study language
comprehension were puzzled by what looked like a Semantic Illusion: Semantically …

The functional interpretation of two salient language-sensitive ERP components–the N400
and the P600–remains a matter of debate. Prominent alternative accounts link the N400 to …

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 …

Abstract Van Petten and Luka's (2012, International Journal of Psychophysiology, 83 (2),
176–190) literature survey of late positive ERP components elicited by more or less …

The literature on the electrophysiology of language comprehension has recently seen a very
prominent discussion of “semantic P600” effects, which have been observed, for example, in …

Theoretical accounts of the N400 are divided as to whether the amplitude of the N400
response to a stimulus reflects the extent to which the stimulus was predicted, the extent to …

The past decade has seen a rapid growth of cognitive and brain research focused on visual
narratives like comics and picture stories. This paper will summarize and integrate this …

In two event-related potential (ERP) experiments, we determined to what extent Grice's
maxim of informativeness as well as pragmatic ability contributes to the incremental build-up …