An event-related potential study of cross-modal morphological and phonological priming
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Justus, T., Yang, J., Larsen, J., De Mornay Davies, P. and Swick, D. 2009. An event-related potential study of cross-modal morphological and phonological priming. Journal of Neurolinguistics. 22 (6), pp. 584-604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2009.07.001
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Title | An event-related potential study of cross-modal morphological and phonological priming |
Authors | Justus, T., Yang, J., Larsen, J., De Mornay Davies, P. and Swick, D. |
Abstract | The current work investigated whether differences in phonological overlap between the past- and present-tense forms of regular and irregular verbs can account for the graded neurophysiological effects of verb regularity observed in past-tense priming designs. Event-related potentials were recorded from 16 healthy participants who performed a lexical-decision task in which past-tense primes immediately preceded present-tense targets. To minimize intra-modal phonological priming effects, cross-modal presentation between auditory primes and visual targets was employed, and results were compared to a companion intra-modal auditory study (Justus, T., Larsen, J., de Mornay Davies, P., Swick, D. (2008). Interpreting dissociations between regular and irregular past-tense morphology: evidence from event-related potentials. Cognitive, Affective, Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 178–194.). For both regular and irregular verbs, faster response times and reduced N400 components were observed for present-tense forms when primed by the corresponding past-tense forms. Although behavioral facilitation was observed with a pseudopast phonological control condition, neither this condition nor an orthographic-phonological control produced significant N400 priming effects. Instead, these two types of priming were associated with a post-lexical anterior negativity (PLAN). Results are discussed with regard to dual- and single-system theories of inflectional morphology, as well as intra- and cross-modal prelexical priming. |
Research Group | Language, Learning and Cognition group |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Journal | Journal of Neurolinguistics |
ISSN | 0911-6044 |
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Nov 2009 | |
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Deposited | 02 Nov 2009 |
Output status | Published |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2009.07.001 |
Language | English |
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