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Electrophysiological Evidence for Sentence Comprehension - Wings

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calculated by subtracting the non-condition from the condition image thus keeping the<br />

polarity of the result unchanged.<br />

Subject:<br />

EEG file: substraction.avg Recorded : 12:50:35 08-Apr-2006<br />

Rate - 1000 Hz, HPF - 0.1 Hz, LPF - 50 Hz, Notch - 50 Hz<br />

Neuroscan<br />

SCAN 4.3<br />

Printed : 11:03:30 14-Aug-2006<br />

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Figure 19. The difference between the conditions in the ‘case’ experiment<br />

The scalp distribution images show the negative wave starting around 400 ms at the left<br />

anterior electrode sites and lasting to around 500 ms at the anterior electrode sites. It is<br />

followed by a positive wave over central and parietal regions starting at around 550 ms<br />

and lasting till the end of the epoch (1000 ms). This distribution with parietal maximum<br />

is typical <strong>for</strong> P600 or ‘syntax positive shift’ (SPS) (Hagoort et al., 2000). However, as<br />

they report:<br />

P600/SPS has a fairly equal scalp distribution, whereas the second phase (750-100<br />

ms) shows a clear parietal maximum (p. 293).<br />

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