Investigating the Comprehension of Negated Sentences Employing World Knowledge: An Event-Related Potential Study

Previous event-related potential (ERP) studies comparing affirmative and negative sentences revealed an N400 for semantically mismatching final words, resulting in a larger N400 for false relative to true affirmative sentences and an opposite effect for negative sentences. Hence, the N400 was indepe...

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Main Authors: Viviana Haase, Maria Spychalska, Markus Werning
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02184/full