Early neuro-electric indication of lexical match in English spoken-word recognition
(2023) In PLoS ONE 18(5).- Abstract
- We investigated early electrophysiological responses to spoken English words embedded in neutral sentence frames, using a lexical decision paradigm. As words unfold in time, similar-sounding lexical items compete for recognition within 200 milliseconds after word onset. A small number of studies have previously investigated event-related potentials in this time window in English and French, with results differing in direction of effects as well as component scalp distribution. Investigations of spoken-word recognition in Swedish have reported an early left-frontally distributed event-related potential that increases in amplitude as a function of the probability of a successful lexical match as the word unfolds. Results from the present... (More)
- We investigated early electrophysiological responses to spoken English words embedded in neutral sentence frames, using a lexical decision paradigm. As words unfold in time, similar-sounding lexical items compete for recognition within 200 milliseconds after word onset. A small number of studies have previously investigated event-related potentials in this time window in English and French, with results differing in direction of effects as well as component scalp distribution. Investigations of spoken-word recognition in Swedish have reported an early left-frontally distributed event-related potential that increases in amplitude as a function of the probability of a successful lexical match as the word unfolds. Results from the present study indicate that the same process may occur in English: we propose that increased certainty of a ‘word’ response in a lexical decision task is reflected in the amplitude of an early left-anterior brain potential beginning around 150 milliseconds after word onset. This in turn is proposed to be connected to the probabilistically driven activation of possible upcoming word forms. (Less)
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- Söderström, Pelle LU and Cutler, Anne
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- 2023-05-18
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- spoken-word recognition, event-related potentials, neurolinguistics, prediction, pre-activation, English, speech perception, pre-activation negativity (PrAN)
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- PLoS ONE
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- 18
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- 5
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- e0285286
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- 14 pages
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- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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- scopus:85159768006
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- 1932-6203
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0285286
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- Neurophysiological correlates of predictive mechanisms in word recognition
- Predicting the future in a fraction of a second: psycholinguistic and neurophysiological investigations of rapid within-word pre-activation in spoken language
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- English
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abstract = {{We investigated early electrophysiological responses to spoken English words embedded in neutral sentence frames, using a lexical decision paradigm. As words unfold in time, similar-sounding lexical items compete for recognition within 200 milliseconds after word onset. A small number of studies have previously investigated event-related potentials in this time window in English and French, with results differing in direction of effects as well as component scalp distribution. Investigations of spoken-word recognition in Swedish have reported an early left-frontally distributed event-related potential that increases in amplitude as a function of the probability of a successful lexical match as the word unfolds. Results from the present study indicate that the same process may occur in English: we propose that increased certainty of a ‘word’ response in a lexical decision task is reflected in the amplitude of an early left-anterior brain potential beginning around 150 milliseconds after word onset. This in turn is proposed to be connected to the probabilistically driven activation of possible upcoming word forms.}},
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title = {{Early neuro-electric indication of lexical match in English spoken-word recognition}},
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