Syntactic Priming in Comprehension: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials

• Published in: Psychological science Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 135 - 143
• Main Authors: Ledoux, Kerry, Traxler, Matthew J., Swaab, Tamara Y.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA Blackwell Publishing 01.02.2007; SAGE Publications; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Brain - physiology; Cognition - physiology; Comprehension; Electrodes; Electroencephalography; Event-related potentials; Evoked Potentials - physiology; Evoked Responses; Humans; Information processing; Language; Language comprehension; Linguistics; Memory; Nouns; Positive emotions; Priming; Psycholinguistics; Psychology; Psychology - statistics & numerical data; Reading Comprehension; Reading Processes; Relative Clauses; Repetition; Sentence Structure; Sentences; Speech Perception - physiology; Syntactic ambiguity; Syntactic processing; Syntactics; Syntax; Verbs; Words

Syntactic priming is the facilitation of processing that occurs when a sentence has the same syntactic form as a preceding sentence. Such priming effects have been less consistently demonstrated in comprehension than in production, and those that have been reported have depended on the repetition of...