In everyday speech, words are usually processed in the context of other words. In the literature on language comprehension there is evidence to suggest that contextual influences play a role in the on-line recognition of spoken words. Recently, a number of researchers have attempted to investigate the time-course of contextual influences on spoken-word recognition with a technique that involves the use of event-related brain potentials (Connolly & Phillips, 1994; Van Petten, Coulson, Rubin, Plante, & Parks, 1999). This experimental technique yields a high temporal resolution and, in addition, does not require the subject to perform a task other than listening to spoken language. Our study extends the two studies mentioned above, and was aimed at finding electrophysiological correlates of spoken-word processes that are influenced by contextual information. In addition to the often reported N400 component, that reflects lexical-semantic integration processes, we obtained a negative component that preceded the N400. This component, the N200, could be an indicator of a lexical selection process, where word-form information resulting from an initial phonological analysis
Cite as: Brink, D.v.d., Brown, C., Hagoort, P. (2000) The N200 as an electrophysiological manifestation of early contextual influences on spoken-word recognition. Proc. Spoken Word Access Processes (SWAP), 95-98
@inproceedings{brink00_swap,
author={Dannie van den Brink and Colin Brown and Peter) Hagoort},
title={{The N200 as an electrophysiological manifestation of early contextual influences on spoken-word recognition}},
year=2000,
booktitle={Proc. Spoken Word Access Processes (SWAP)},
pages={95--98}
}