title: Sequential processing during noun phrase production.
abstract: This study examined whether the brain operations involved during the processing of successive words in multi word noun phrase production take place sequentially or simultaneously. German speakers named pictures while ignoring a written distractor superimposed on the picture (picture-word interference paradigm) using the definite determiner and corresponding German noun. The gender congruency and the phonological congruency (i.e., overlap in first phonemes) between target and distractor were manipulated. Naming responses and EEG were recorded. The behavioural performance replicated both the phonology and the gender congruency effects (i.e., shorter naming latencies for gender congruent than incongruent and for phonologically congruent than incongruent trials). The phonological and gender manipulations also influenced the EEG data. Crucially, the two effects occurred in different time windows and over different sets of electrodes. The phonological effect was observed substantially earlier than the gender congruency effect. This finding suggests that the processing of determiners and nouns during determiner noun phrase production occurs at least partly sequentially.
authors.affiliation: Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education, Université de Genève, Bd du Pont d'Arve 42, 1205 Genève, Switzerland; Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, LPC UMR 7290, 3, Place Victor Hugo, 13331 Marseille, France. Electronic address: audrey.buerki@unige.ch.
authors.forename: Audrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bürki
authors.affiliation: Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, LPL UMR 7309, 5, Avenue Pasteur, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, France; Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, LPC UMR 7290, 3, Place Victor Hugo, 13331 Marseille, France. Electronic address: jasmin.sadat@upf.edu.
authors.forename: Jasmin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sadat
authors.affiliation: Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, LPC UMR 7290, 3, Place Victor Hugo, 13331 Marseille, France. Electronic address: anne-sophie.dubarry@univ-amu.fr.
authors.forename: Anne-Sophie
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Dubarry
authors.affiliation: Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, LPC UMR 7290, 3, Place Victor Hugo, 13331 Marseille, France. Electronic address: francois-xavier.alario@univ-amu.fr.
authors.forename: F-Xavier
authors.initials: FX
authors.lastname: Alario
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: EEG; Language production; Multi-word utterances; Picture-word interference