ERPs reveal individual differences in morphosyntactic processing

• Published in: Neuropsychologia Vol. 56; no. Apr; pp. 289 - 301
• Main Authors: Tanner, Darren, Van Hell, Janet G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2014; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Analysis of Variance; Behavioral psychophysiology; Biological and medical sciences; Brain; Brain Mapping; Comprehension - physiology; Electroencephalography; Electrophysiology; English; ERPs; Event Related Potentials; Evoked Potentials - physiology; Familial sinistrality; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Individual Differences; Individuality; LAN; Language; Language Processing; Language Proficiency; Male; Miscellaneous; Morphological Processing; Morphosyntax; N400; Neurolinguistics; P600; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Semantics; Syntactic Processing; Young Adult; ERPs; N400; P600; Familial sinistrality; Individual differences; LAN; Morphosyntax; Human; Central nervous system; Electrophysiology; Cognition; Encephalon; English; Verbal ability; Language; Morphology; Interindividual comparison; Syntax; Event evoked potential

We investigated individual differences in the neural substrates of morphosyntactic processing among monolingual English speakers using event-related potentials (ERPs). Although grand-mean analysis showed a biphasic LAN-P600 pattern to grammatical violations, analysis of individuals׳ ERP responses sh...