Reanalyzing language expectations: Native language knowledge modulates the sensitivity to intervening cues during anticipatory processing
| Autor: | Nicola Molinaro, Francesco Giannelli |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male Brain activity and meditation Cognitive Neuroscience First language Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Multilingualism word expectation 050105 experimental psychology Lexical item Task (project management) 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Developmental Neuroscience Noun Determiner Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Neuroscience of multilingualism Biological Psychiatry Grammatical gender Endocrine and Autonomic Systems General Neuroscience hierarchical representations 05 social sciences Brain Electroencephalography bilingualism Anticipation Psychological Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Neurology Reading Speech Perception grammatical gender language anticipation Female Cues Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery ERP Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación instname |
| Popis: | Issue Online:21 September 2018 We investigated how native language experience shapes anticipatory language processing. Two groups of bilinguals (either Spanish or Basque natives) performed a word matching task (WordMT) and a picture matching task (PictureMT). They indicated whether the stimuli they visually perceived matched with the noun they heard. Spanish noun endings were either diagnostic of the gender (transparent) or ambiguous (opaque). ERPs were time-locked to an intervening gender-marked determiner preceding the predicted noun. The determiner always gender agreed with the following noun but could also introduce a mismatching noun, so that it was not fully task diagnostic. Evoked brain activity time-locked to the determiner was considered as reflecting updating/reanalysis of the task-relevant preactivated representation. We focused on the timing of this effect by estimating the comparison between a gender-congruent and a gender-incongruent determiner. In the WordMT, both groups showed a late N400 effect. Crucially, only Basque natives displayed an earlier P200 effect for determiners preceding transparent nouns. In the PictureMT, both groups showed an early P200 effect for determiners preceding opaque nouns. The determiners of transparent nouns triggered a negative effect at similar to 430 ms in Spanish natives, but at similar to 550 ms in Basque natives. This pattern of results supports a "retracing hypothesis" according to which the neurocognitive system navigates through the intermediate (sublexical and lexical) linguistic representations available from previous processing to evaluate the need of an update in the linguistic expectation concerning a target lexical item. Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) (grant PSI2015‐65694‐P to N. M.), Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness “Severo Ochoa” Programme for Centres/Units of Excellence in R&D (grant SEV‐2015‐490) |
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