Author, as appears in the article.: Haro J; Demestre J; Boada R; Ferré P

Department: Psicologia

URV's Author/s: Boada Navarro, Roger / Demestre Viladevall, Josep / Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar / 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: juan.haro@urv.cat juan.haro@urv.cat mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat josep.demestre@urv.cat roger.boada@estudiants.urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0002-3456-4731 0000-0002-3456-4731 0000-0002-3192-0040 0000-0001-9221-066X

Record's date: 2023-06-17

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0911604416301336?via%3Dihub

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Journal Of Neurolinguistics. 44 190-202

APA: Haro J; Demestre J; Boada R; Ferré P (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

Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2017.06.001

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2017

Publication Type: Journal Publications