Making the association: an ERP investigation of the effect of association strength on word-to-text integration in comprehenders of varying skill Joseph Z. Stafura (
[email protected]) & Charles A. Perfetti Department of Psychology and the Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh; the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Background
Left Frontal Negativity (N350)
Results
Does lexical association strength influence on-line word-to-text integration?
In this case, ‘blew up’ and ‘explosion’ are lexical associates, but psycholinguistic research has often found dominance of message-level factors (e.g., sentential congruence) over lexical-level factors (e.g., lexical association) in on-line discourse comprehension
Sentence Comprehension
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