Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Stuss, D.T.
• Picton, T.W.
• Cerri, A.M.

Titel

Electrophysiological manifestations of typicality judgment

Ist Teil von

• Brain and language, 1988-03, Vol.33 (2), p.260-272

Ort / Verlag

Netherlands: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

1988

Quelle

Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect (DFG Nationallizenzen)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Ten male subjects participated in an event-related potential study of typicality judgment of words that were of either high or low frequency of usage. The amplitude of a negative wave with an average peak latency of 490 msec (N400) correlated with the goodness-of-fit of a word to a particular category independent of frequency, with poor examples of the category evoking a significantly more negative waveform. The relative insensitivity of the N400 to word frequency suggests that the N400 reflects some postlexical evaluation rather than lexical access.