Reading comprehension and predictability effects on sentence processing: an event-related potential study

Abstract: Electrophysiology studies have identified two event-related potentials that are modulated by predictive processes during language comprehension: the N400 and a frontal positivity. The N400 is smaller when words are presented within highly restrictive sentences, indicating reduced lexica...

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Autores principales: Tabullo, Ángel Javier, Shalom, Diego, Sevilla, Yamila, Gattei, Carolina A., París, Luis A., Wainselboim, Alejandro
Formato: Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Wiley 2022
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COMPRENSION LECTORA
LENGUAJE
PSICOLOGIA COGNITIVA
Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/14649
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Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) de Universidad Católica Argentina
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topic COMPRENSION LECTORA
LENGUAJE
PSICOLOGIA COGNITIVA
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LENGUAJE
PSICOLOGIA COGNITIVA
Tabullo, Ángel Javier
Shalom, Diego
Sevilla, Yamila
Gattei, Carolina A.
París, Luis A.
Wainselboim, Alejandro
Reading comprehension and predictability effects on sentence processing: an event-related potential study
topic_facet COMPRENSION LECTORA
LENGUAJE
PSICOLOGIA COGNITIVA
description Abstract: Electrophysiology studies have identified two event-related potentials that are modulated by predictive processes during language comprehension: the N400 and a frontal positivity. The N400 is smaller when words are presented within highly restrictive sentences, indicating reduced lexical retrieval costs. Violations of strong predictions generate larger frontal positivities, possibly reflecting inhibitory processes. More skilled comprehenders may exhibit enhanced predictive processing, but this possibility has seldom been investigated with event-related potentials (ERPs). We analyzed the association between predictability ERP modulations and reading comprehension abilities. Twenty-four undergraduate students were exposed to strongly and weakly constraining sentences, ending with an expected or unexpected final word. Their comprehension skills were assessed with a cloze task. Better comprehenders showed smaller N400s for expected words, and larger posterior positivities for unexpected endings, in strongly constraining contexts. These effects correlated with reading comprehension scores. The results suggest that better comprehenders take more advantage of predictions to reduce retrieval costs, and allocate more resources to postlexical integration processes.
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author Tabullo, Ángel Javier
Shalom, Diego
Sevilla, Yamila
Gattei, Carolina A.
París, Luis A.
Wainselboim, Alejandro
author_facet Tabullo, Ángel Javier
Shalom, Diego
Sevilla, Yamila
Gattei, Carolina A.
París, Luis A.
Wainselboim, Alejandro
author_sort Tabullo, Ángel Javier
title Reading comprehension and predictability effects on sentence processing: an event-related potential study
title_short Reading comprehension and predictability effects on sentence processing: an event-related potential study
title_full Reading comprehension and predictability effects on sentence processing: an event-related potential study
title_fullStr Reading comprehension and predictability effects on sentence processing: an event-related potential study
title_full_unstemmed Reading comprehension and predictability effects on sentence processing: an event-related potential study
title_sort reading comprehension and predictability effects on sentence processing: an event-related potential study
publisher Wiley
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url https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/14649
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