Pre-activation negativity (PrAN) in brain potentials to unfolding words

We describe an ERP effect termed the ‘pre-activation negativity’ (PrAN), which is proposed to index the degree of pre-activation of upcoming word-internal morphemes in speech processing. Using lexical competition measures based on word-initial speech fragments (WIFs), as well as statistical analyses...

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Main Authors: Pelle Söderström, Merle A Horne, Johan Frid, Mikael Roll
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
ERP
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00512/full