The processing difference between person names and common nouns in sentence contexts: an ERP study

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	The processing difference between person names and common nouns in sentence contexts: an ERP study
	Wang, Lin1 ; Verdonschot, Rinus G.2; Yang, Yufang1 ; Lin Wang
通讯作者邮箱	wangl@psych.ac.cn
心理所单位排序	1
摘要	Person names and common nouns differ in how they are stored in the mental lexicon. Using event-related potentials, this study compared the integration of names and nouns into sentence contexts. Both person names and common nouns were highly related in meaning and either congruent or incongruent within the previous contexts. Name incongruence elicited an N400 effect, suggesting that people were able to rapidly retrieve the semantic meaning of names from long-term memory even when this process was mediated by person identification. Conversely, participants showed a “good enough” processing of the nouns due to their low specificity level and, thus, rich semantic associations, leading to a P600 effect. These distinctive ERP effects provide clear evidence for the distinctive semantic representations of these word categories by showing that the activation of a name’s meaning is mediated by a single connection between identity-specific information and person identity, whereas multiple connections exist between nouns and their meanings.; Person names and common nouns differ in how they are stored in the mental lexicon. Using event-related potentials, this study compared the integration of names and nouns into sentence contexts. Both person names and common nouns were highly related in meaning and either congruent or incongruent within the previous contexts. Name incongruence elicited an N400 effect, suggesting that people were able to rapidly retrieve the semantic meaning of names from long-term memory even when this process was mediated by person identification. Conversely, participants showed a "good enough" processing of the nouns due to their low specificity level and, thus, rich semantic associations, leading to a P600 effect. These distinctive ERP effects provide clear evidence for the distinctive semantic representations of these word categories by showing that the activation of a name's meaning is mediated by a single connection between identity-specific information and person identity, whereas multiple connections exist between nouns and their meanings.
学科领域	心理语言学
	2016
语种	英语
DOI	10.1007/s00426-014-0645-6
发表期刊	PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG
ISSN	0340-0727
卷号	80 期号:1 页码:94-108
期刊论文类型	Article
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收录类别	SSCI
WOS关键词	LEFT TEMPORAL POLE ; PROPER-NAMES ; LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION ; BRAIN POTENTIALS ; RECOGNITION ; RETRIEVAL ; ANOMALIES ; WORDS ; N400 ; UNIFICATION
WOS标题词	Social Sciences
WOS研究方向	Psychology
WOS类目	Psychology, Experimental
WOS记录号	WOS:000368686100008
资助机构	Scientific Foundation of Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(Y1CX312005) ; Scientific Research Foundation for Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry(112000H377) ; JSPS fellowship(P12315)
引用统计	被引频次：7[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/10185
专题	认知与发展心理学研究室
通讯作者	Lin Wang
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Nagoya Univ, Grad Sch Languages & Cultures, Nagoya, Aichi 4648601, Japan
第一作者单位	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Lin,Verdonschot, Rinus G.,Yang, Yufang,et al. The processing difference between person names and common nouns in sentence contexts: an ERP study[J]. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG,2016,80(1):94-108.
APA	Wang, Lin,Verdonschot, Rinus G.,Yang, Yufang,&Lin Wang.(2016).The processing difference between person names and common nouns in sentence contexts: an ERP study.PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG,80(1),94-108.
MLA	Wang, Lin,et al."The processing difference between person names and common nouns in sentence contexts: an ERP study".PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG 80.1(2016):94-108.

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