title: About Edible Restaurants: Conflicts between Syntax and Semantics as Revealed by ERPs.
abstract: In order to investigate conflicts between semantics and syntax, we recorded ERPs, while participants read Dutch sentences. Sentences containing conflicts between syntax and semantics (Fred eats in asandwich…/Fred eats arestaurant…) elicited an N400. These results show that conflicts between syntax and semantics not necessarily lead to P600 effects and are in line with the processing competition account. According to this parallel account the syntactic and semantic processing streams are fully interactive and information from one level can influence the processing at another level. The relative strength of the cues of the processing streams determines which level is affected most strongly by the conflict. The processing competition account maintains the distinction between the N400 as index for semantic processing and the P600 as index for structural processing.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen Nijmegen, Netherlands.
authors.forename: Miriam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kos
authors.forename: Theo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Vosse
authors.forename: Daniëlle
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: van den Brink
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hagoort