TY - JOUR
T1 - Dissociable effects of prediction and integration during language comprehension
T2 - Evidence from a largescale study using brain potentials
AU - Nieuwland, Mante S.
AU - Barr, Dale J.
AU - Bartolozzi, Federica
AU - Busch-Moreno, Simon
AU - Darley, Emily
AU - Donaldson, David I.
AU - Ferguson, Heather J.
AU - Fu, Xiao
AU - Heyselaar, Evelien
AU - Huettig, Falk
AU - Husband, E. Matthew
AU - Ito, Aine
AU - Kazanina, Nina
AU - Kogan, Vita
AU - Kohút, Zdenko
AU - Kulakova, Eugenia
AU - Mézière, Diane
AU - Politzer-Ahles, Stephen
AU - Rousselet, Guillaume
AU - Rueschemeyer, Shirley Ann
AU - Segaert, Katrien
AU - Tuomainen, Jyrki
AU - Von Grebmer Zu Wolfsthurn, Sarah
PY - 2020/2/1
Y1 - 2020/2/1
N2 - Composing sentence meaning is easier for predictable words than for unpredictable words. Are predictable words genuinely predicted, or simply more plausible and therefore easier to integrate with sentence context? We addressed this persistent and fundamental question using data from a recent, large-scale (n = 334) replication study, by investigating the effects of word predictability and sentence plausibility on the N400, the brain's electrophysiological index of semantic processing. A spatio-temporally fine-grained mixed-effect multiple regression analysis revealed overlapping effects of predictability and plausibility on the N400, albeit with distinct spatio-temporal profiles. Our results challenge the viewthat the predictability-dependent N400 reflects the effects of either prediction or integration, and suggest that semantic facilitation of predictable words arises froma cascade of processes that activate and integrate word meaning with context into a sentence-level meaning. This article is part of the theme issue 'Towards mechanistic models of meaning composition'.
AB - Composing sentence meaning is easier for predictable words than for unpredictable words. Are predictable words genuinely predicted, or simply more plausible and therefore easier to integrate with sentence context? We addressed this persistent and fundamental question using data from a recent, large-scale (n = 334) replication study, by investigating the effects of word predictability and sentence plausibility on the N400, the brain's electrophysiological index of semantic processing. A spatio-temporally fine-grained mixed-effect multiple regression analysis revealed overlapping effects of predictability and plausibility on the N400, albeit with distinct spatio-temporal profiles. Our results challenge the viewthat the predictability-dependent N400 reflects the effects of either prediction or integration, and suggest that semantic facilitation of predictable words arises froma cascade of processes that activate and integrate word meaning with context into a sentence-level meaning. This article is part of the theme issue 'Towards mechanistic models of meaning composition'.
KW - N400
KW - Plausibility
KW - Predictability
KW - Semantic similarity
KW - neuroscience
KW - cognition
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85076520551&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1098/rstb.2018.0522
DO - 10.1098/rstb.2018.0522
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
C2 - 31840593
SN - 0962-8436
VL - 375
JO - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
JF - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
IS - 1791
M1 - 20180522
ER -