Electrophysiological Evidence for Sentence Comprehension - Wings

LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1. The process of sentence comprehension 9
Figure 2. Friederici’s model of sentence comprehension 34
Figure 3. Representation of words in the mental lexicon 37
Figure 4. The layered structure of the clause 41
Figure 5. The constituent projection of a sentence 41
Figure 6. A sentence with both constituent and operator projection 42
Figure 7. The macrorole hierarchy (Van Valin, LaPolla, 1997: 146) 44
Figure 8. The overview of the experiments and participants 67
Figure 9. A mismatch on the constituent projection 69
Figure 10. The presentation of the stimulus sentences 70
Figure 11. A mismatch on the operator projection 72
Figure 12. Layered structure of the noun phrase in RRG 74
Figure 13. RT results for ‘case’ and ‘tense’ experiments 86
Figure 14. RT results for ‘gender’ and ‘qnt’ experiments 86
Figure 15. An overview of the results in the ‘case’ experiment (violation = red) 88
Figure 16. LAN effect in the ‘case’ experiment (F3 and Fz electrodes) 89
Figure 17. LAN effect and the late positivity at the Cz electrode 90
Figure 18. The P600 in the ‘case’ experiment measured on the Pz electrode 91
Figure 19. The difference between the conditions in the ‘case’ experiment 92
Figure 20. An overview of the results in the ‘tense’ experiment (violation= red) 94
Figure 21. Average waveform for F7, F3, FT7, FC3 electrodes in the ‘tense’ experiment 95
Figure 22. Average waveform for Pz electrode in the ‘tense’ experiment 96
Figure 23. The difference between the conditions in the ‘tense’ experiment 96
Figure 24. Left and right view (difference map, ‘tense’ experiment) 97
Figure 25. The grand average for the ‘gender’ experiment 99
Figure 26. The LAN effect in the ‘gender’ experiment 100
Figure 27. Difference map in the ‘gender’ experiment 100
Figure 28. P600 effect on the CPz electrode in the ‘gender’ experiment 102
Figure 29. The grand average (all electrodes) for the ‘qnt’ experiment (violation – red) 103
Figure 30. The waveforms at the FCz and Cz electrodes in the ‘qnt’ experiment 104
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