Webbläsaren som du använder stöds inte av denna webbplats. Alla versioner av Internet Explorer stöds inte längre, av oss eller Microsoft (läs mer här: * https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Var god och använd en modern webbläsare för att ta del av denna webbplats, som t.ex. nyaste versioner av Edge, Chrome, Firefox eller Safari osv.

Word-stem tones cue suffixes in the brain

Författare

Summary, in English

High and low tones on Swedish word stems are associated with different classes of suffixes. We tested the electrophysiological effects of high and low stem tones as well as tonally cued and uncued suffixes. Two different tasks were used involving either choosing the suffix-dependent meaning of the words, or pressing a button when the word ended. To determine whether effects were in fact due to association of tones with lexical material, delexicalized stimuli were also used. High tones in lexical items produced an increase in the P2 component in both tasks, interpreted as showing passive anticipatory attention allocated to the associated upcoming suffix. This effect was absent for delexicalized forms, where instead an N1 increase was found for high tones, indicating that the high pitch was unexpected in the absence of lexical material, and did not lead to anticipatory attention. A P600 effect was found for uncued high-associated suffixes in the semantic task, which was also where the largest increase was found in reaction times. This suggests that the tonal cues were most important when participants were required to process the meaning of the words.

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

116-120

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Brain Research

Volym

1520

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Neurosciences

Nyckelord

  • N1
  • P2
  • Morphology
  • Prosody
  • Event-related potentials
  • ERP
  • Language

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Abstract, emotional and concrete words in the mental lexicon
  • Humanities and Medicine (HuMe)

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1872-6240