APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Distinct Neural Responses to Social and Semantic Violations: An N400 Study
- Natalie Weimer
Stony Brook University, The State University of New York - Sheri Clark
Stony Brook University, The State University of New York - Antonio Freitas
Stony Brook University, The State University of New York
Abstract
Greater amplitudes of the N400 event-related potential component are elicited by semantically incongruent sentence endings. We investigated whether social violations would elicit a similar N400 effect. Our results show N400 modulations by violations of semantic but not social conventions, clarifying potential boundary conditions for eliciting the N400.
Cognitive Neuroscience
