Information Structure Influences Depth of Syntactic Processing: Event-Related Potential Evidence for the Chomsky Illusion

	Information Structure Influences Depth of Syntactic Processing: Event-Related Potential Evidence for the Chomsky Illusion
	Wang, Lin1,2,3 ; Bastiaansen, Marcel 1,3; Yang, Yufang2 ; Hagoort, Peter 1,3; Hagoort, P (reprint author), Max Planck Inst Psycholinguist, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
心理所单位排序	2
摘要	Information structure facilitates communication between interlocutors by highlighting relevant information. It has previously been shown that information structure modulates the depth of semantic processing. Here we used event-related potentials to investigate whether information structure can modulate the depth of syntactic processing. In question-answer pairs, subtle (number agreement) or salient (phrase structure) syntactic violations were placed either in focus or out of focus through information structure marking. P600 effects to these violations reflect the depth of syntactic processing. For subtle violations, a P600 effect was observed in the focus condition, but not in the non-focus condition. For salient violations, comparable P600 effects were found in both conditions. These results indicate that information structure can modulate the depth of syntactic processing, but that this effect depends on the salience of the information. When subtle violations are not in focus, they are processed less elaborately. We label this phenomenon the Chomsky illusion.
学科领域	Cognitive Psychology
	2012-10-24
语种	英语
发表期刊	PLOS ONE
ISSN	1932-6203
卷号	7 期号:10 页码:e47917
期刊论文类型	Article
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收录类别	SCI
项目简介	This work was supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)-Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Joint PhD Training Program (http://www.knaw.nl/Pages/DEF/27/259.bGFuZz1FTkc.html). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
WOS记录号	WOS:000310310200108
资助机构	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)-Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
引用统计	被引频次：40[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/311026/11864
专题	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
通讯作者	Hagoort, P (reprint author), Max Planck Inst Psycholinguist, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
作者单位	1.Max Planck Inst Psycholinguist, Nijmegen, Netherlands 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 3.Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Donders Inst Brain Cognit & Behav, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
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,Bastiaansen, Marcel,Yang, Yufang,et al. Information Structure Influences Depth of Syntactic Processing: Event-Related Potential Evidence for the Chomsky Illusion[J]. PLOS ONE,2012,7(10):e47917.
APA	Wang, Lin,Bastiaansen, Marcel,Yang, Yufang,Hagoort, Peter,&Hagoort, P .(2012).Information Structure Influences Depth of Syntactic Processing: Event-Related Potential Evidence for the Chomsky Illusion.PLOS ONE,7(10),e47917.
MLA	Wang, Lin,et al."Information Structure Influences Depth of Syntactic Processing: Event-Related Potential Evidence for the Chomsky Illusion".PLOS ONE 7.10(2012):e47917.

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