Morphosyntax can modulate the N400 component: Event related potentials to gender-marked post-nominal adjectives

AbstractZolpidem is a GABA (A) agonist, which is indicated for the short-term management of insomnia. Recent research provide evidence suggesting that zolpidem produces spatial working memory (WM) deficits and dependence; however, the underlying mechanisms of these effects are unknown. Since the auditory N400 component of event-related potentials (ERPS) is considered as an index of memory use of context processing, the present study focused on N400 waveform of ERPs elicited during a WM task in a case suffering from zolpidem dependence. The patterns of N400 waveform of this case were compared to the patterns obtained from healthy controls. This comparison revealed that zolpidem dependence is accompanied by reduced amplitudes located at posterior brain areas and diffuse prolongation of N400. These findings may indicate that zolpidem dependence manifests alterations with regard to the memory use of context processing, involving or affecting a wide-ranging network of the brain's structures.

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Behavioral and Electrophysiological Study of Phonological Priming between Bisyllabic Spoken Words

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience ◽

10.1162/089892901564117 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 121-143 ◽

Cited By ~ 66

Author(s):

Nicolas Dumay ◽

Abdelrhani Benraïss ◽

Brian Barriol ◽

Cécile Colin ◽

Monique Radeau ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Electrophysiological Study ◽

Reaction Times ◽

Event Related Potentials ◽

Auditory Presentation ◽

Decision Task ◽

Phonological Priming ◽

Priming Effects ◽

Related Potentials ◽

N400 Component ◽

Lexical Processes

Phonological priming between bisyllabic (CV.CVC) spoken items was examined using both behavioral (reaction times, RTs) and electrophysiological (event-related potentials, ERPs) measures. Word and pseudoword targets were preceded by pseudoword primes. Different types of final phonological overlap between prime and target were compared. Critical pairs shared the last syllable, the rime or the coda, while unrelated pairs were used as controls. Participants performed a target shadowing task in Experiment 1 and a delayed lexical decision task in Experiment 2. RTs were measured in the first experiment and ERPs were recorded in the second experiment. The RT experiment was carried out under two presentation conditions. In Condition 1 both primes and targets were presented auditorily, while in Condition 2 the primes were presented visually and the targets auditorily. Priming effects were found in the unimodal condition only. RTs were fastest for syllable overlap, intermediate for rime overlap, and slowest for coda overlap and controls that did not differ from one another. ERPs were recorded under unimodal auditory presentation. ERP results showed that the amplitude of the auditory N400 component was smallest for syllable overlap, intermediate for rime overlap, and largest for coda overlap and controls that did not differ from one another. In both experiments, the priming effects were larger for word than for pseudoword targets. These results are best explained by the combined influences of nonlexical and lexical processes, and a comparison of the reported effects with those found in monosyllables suggests the involvement of rime and syllable representations.

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Effects of Semantic Discrimination of Chinese Words on N400 Component of Event-Related Potentials

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1999.89.1.185 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 89 (1) ◽

pp. 185-193 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Yue-Jia Luo ◽

Senqi Hu ◽

Xu-Chu Weng ◽

Jing-Han Wei

Keyword(s):

Event Related Potentials ◽

Related Potentials ◽

N400 Component

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Characteristics of N400 component elicited in patients who have migraine with aura

The Journal of Headache and Pain ◽

10.1186/s10194-021-01375-8 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Igor Petrusic ◽

Vojislav Jovanovic ◽

Vanja Kovic ◽

Andrej Savic

Keyword(s):

Migraine With Aura ◽

Semantic Processing ◽

Event Related Potentials ◽

New Method ◽

Healthy Controls ◽

N400 Effect ◽

Related Potentials ◽

N400 Component ◽

The Difference

Abstract Background This study aimed to examine the N400 effect and event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited from congruent and incongruent stimuli in patients who have migraines with aura (MwA). Methods A total of 33 MwA patients and 20 healthy controls (HCs) were studied. They were balanced in age (35.12 ± 8.94 vs 34.70 ± 9.59 years, p = 0.872) and sex (69.7 vs 75.0% females, p = 0.761). ERPs were measured in response to both stimuli, where pictures were preceded with an object name that either matched or mismatched with the object. Averaged amplitudes, peaks, peak latencies, difference waves and topography were compared between MwA and HCs. Results MwA patients had significantly lower averaged amplitudes at the Fz and F4 sites during incongruent stimuli, as well as reduced peaks at the C3 and Pz sites. Topography showed a more widespread N400 effect over scalp relative to HCs. The difference ERP waveforms did not differ in the N400 effect between groups, but the P600 effect was significantly stronger in the HCs group relative to the MwA group at the Pz (6.52 ± 2.57 vs. 3.50 ± 3.15, p = 0.001) and P4 (5.86 ± 2.79 vs. 3.95 ± 3.64, p = 0.040) sites. Conclusions Picture-word matching tasks could serve as a potential new method for the investigation of semantic processing in MwA patients.

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Semantic feedback processing mechanism of the enactment effect: Evidence from event-related potentials

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology ◽

10.1177/17470218211047944 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 174702182110479

Author(s):

Lijuan Wang ◽

Zhanyu Yu ◽

Zhi Ren ◽

Jialin Ma

Keyword(s):

Semantic Processing ◽

Blow Up ◽

Memory Performance ◽

Event Related Potentials ◽

Semantic Integration ◽

Feedback Processing ◽

Enactment Effect ◽

Related Potentials ◽

N400 Component ◽

Processing Mechanism

The enactment effect refers to a phenomenon in which the memory performance for action phrases is enhanced by performing the described action (e.g., sharpen a pencil) compared with simply reading the action phrase. This produced effect can result in improved motor processing. This study investigated the contribution of semantic integration to the enactment effect by contrasting well-integrated phrases, such as “blow up the balloon,” with poorly integrated phrases, such as “sew the toothpick,” and analysing the N400 component of event-related potentials (ERPs). The subjects encoded action phrases with different degrees of semantic integration by either pretending to perform or reading action phrases. They then completed a phrase recognition test, while electroencephalographic signals were simultaneously recorded. The behavioural results showed that semantic integration improved memory performance under the motor encoding condition but not under the verbal encoding condition. The ERP results revealed that, regardless of whether it was an old (memorised) or new (distractor) phrase, a larger N400 component was elicited under the motor encoding condition than under the verbal encoding condition. In the motor encoding condition, poorly integrated phrases elicited a larger N400 component than well-integrated phrases; in the verbal encoding condition, this effect was not observed. The N400 effect associated with semantic processing was enhanced by semantic integration under the motor encoding condition rather than the verbal encoding condition. These results supported a deep semantic processing mechanism under the motor encoding condition, and a semantic feedback processing mechanism for the enactment effect was partially supported.

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The N400 component of event-related potentials in schizophrenic patients: a preliminary study

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology ◽

10.1016/0013-4694(91)90112-h ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 78 (2) ◽

pp. 124-132 ◽

Cited By ~ 74

Author(s):

Sachiko Koyama ◽

Yasuhiro Nageishi ◽

Minoru Shimokochi ◽

Hiroto Hokama ◽

Yoshikazu Miyazato ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Event Related Potentials ◽

Schizophrenic Patients ◽

Related Potentials ◽

N400 Component ◽

Preliminary Study

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PS-13-10 N400 component of event-related potentials in patients with Parkinson's disease

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology/Electromyography and Motor Control ◽

10.1016/0924-980x(95)92848-g ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 97 (4) ◽

pp. S117

Author(s):

Junko Ito ◽

Sachiko Koyama ◽

Yasuhiro Nageishi

Keyword(s):

Parkinson’S Disease ◽

Parkinson's Disease ◽

Event Related Potentials ◽

Related Potentials ◽

N400 Component

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Maximum variance of late component event related potentials (190–240 ms) in unmedicated schizophrenic patients

Psychiatry Research ◽

10.1016/0165-1781(95)02556-c ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 56 (3) ◽

pp. 229-236 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

John Anderson ◽

Evian Gordon ◽

Robert J. Barry ◽

Christopher Rennie ◽

Pierre J.V. Beumont ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Event Related Potentials ◽

Late Component ◽

Maximum Variance ◽

Schizophrenic Patients ◽

Related Potentials ◽

Component Event

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The Modulation of Late Component Event Related Potentials by Pre-Stimulus EEG Theta Activity in ADHD

International Journal of Neuroscience ◽

10.3109/00207450109150688 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 107 (3-4) ◽

pp. 247-264 ◽

Cited By ~ 55

Author(s):

I. Lazzaro ◽

E. Gordon ◽

S. Whitmont ◽

R. Meares ◽

S. Clarke

Keyword(s):

Event Related Potentials ◽

Theta Activity ◽

Late Component ◽

Related Potentials ◽

Component Event

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The Effect of Reviewers’ Self-Disclosure of Personal Review Record on Consumer Purchase Decisions: An ERPs Investigation

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2020.609538 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 ◽

Author(s):

Jianhua Liu ◽

Zan Mo ◽

Huijian Fu ◽

Wei Wei ◽

Lijuan Song ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Positive Impact ◽

Personal Information ◽

Event Related Potentials ◽

Online Reviews ◽

Purchase Decisions ◽

Self Disclosure ◽

Related Potentials ◽

N400 Component ◽

Neural Underpinnings ◽

Purchase Rate

Personal review record, as a form of personally identifiable information, refers to the past review information of a reviewer. The disclosure of reviewers’ personal information on electronic commerce websites has been found to substantially impact consumers’ perception regarding the credibility of online reviews. However, personal review record has received little attention in prior research. The current study investigated whether the disclosure of personal review record influenced consumers’ information processing and decision making by adopting event-related potentials (ERPs) measures, as ERPs allow for a nuanced examination of the neural mechanisms that underlie cognitive processes. At the behavioral level, we found that the purchase rate was higher and that the reaction time was shorter when the review record was disclosed (vs. when it was not), indicating that the disclosed condition was more favorable to the participants. Moreover, ERPs data showed that the disclosed condition induced an attenuated N400 component and an increased LPP component relative to the undisclosed condition, suggesting that the former condition gave rise to less cognitive and emotional conflict and to more positive evaluations. Thus, by elucidating potential cognitive and neural underpinnings, this study demonstrates the positive impact of reviewers’ disclosure of personal review record on consumers’ purchase decisions.

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