Author, as appears in the article.: Haro, Juan; Demestre, Josep; Boada, Roger; Ferre, Pilar
Department: Psicologia
URV's Author/s: Boada Navarro, Roger / Demestre Viladevall, Josep / Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar / Haro Barceló, Júlia / Haro Rodriguez, Juan
Keywords: Word recognition Semantic ambiguity Polysemy N400 Meanings relatedness Homonymy Erp Ambiguity advantage
Abstract: © 2017 Elsevier Ltd In the present study we examined electrophysiological and behavioral correlates of ambiguous word processing. In a lexical decision task, participants were presented with ambiguous words with unrelated meanings (i.e., homonyms; e.g., bat), ambiguous words with related meanings (i.e., polysemes; e.g., newspaper), and unambiguous words (e.g., guitar). Ambiguous words elicited larger N400 amplitudes than unambiguous words and showed an advantage in RTs. Importantly, no differences were found between homonyms and polysemes, on either N400 amplitudes or in RTs. These results suggest that ambiguous words, regardless of the relatedness between their meanings, benefit from enhanced semantic activation in comparison to unambiguous words during word recognition.
Thematic Areas: Psychology, experimental Psychology Psicología Neurosciences Linguistics and language Linguistics Letras / linguística Language and linguistics Language & linguistics Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística Experimental and cognitive psychology Engenharias iv Educação física Cognitive neuroscience Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Arts and humanities (miscellaneous) Applied linguistics
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 09116044
Author's mail: roger.boada@estudiants.urv.cat josep.demestre@urv.cat mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat juan.haro@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0001-9221-066X 0000-0002-3192-0040 0000-0002-3456-4731
Record's date: 2024-12-07
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Journal Of Neurolinguistics. 44 190-202
APA: Haro, Juan; Demestre, Josep; Boada, Roger; Ferre, Pilar (2017). ERP and behavioral effects of semantic ambiguity in a lexical decision task. Journal Of Neurolinguistics, 44(), 190-202. DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2017.06.001
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2017
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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