The P600 as an index of syntactic integration difficulty

By E. Kaan, A. R. Harris, Edward Gibson, Phillip J. Holcomb. 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Neural mechanisms of language comprehension: challenges to syntax. (2007, background): “…(MacDonald et al., 1994; Tanenhaus et al., 1995), the P600 was considered to reflect the difficulty of syntactic integration once syntactic frames had already been activated and modulated by multiple sources of information during a single stage of parsing (Fiebach et al., 2002; Kaan et al., 2000).”
Neuroimaging of syntax and syntactic processing. (2006, methodology): “Studies using this tool have identified a late centro-parietal positivity around 600 ms after the onset of the critical word (labeled P600) in correlation with processes of syntactic integration [50].”
Eye movements and on-line comprehension processes (2007, background): “, 2003), and ERP (Fiebach et al., 2002; Kaan et al., 2000; Vos et al., 2001) suggests that syntactic processing is influenced by memory load, very few eyetracking studies have focused specifically on this issue (though see Traxler et al.”
The interplay of individual differences and context of learning in behavioral and neurocognitive second language development (2018, background): “This component is consistently elicited by violations of syntax and morphosyntax as well as by other grammatical properties, such a complexity (e.g. Kaan et al., 2000).”
Psycholinguistics Electrified II (1994–2005) (2006, neutral): “Hahne, & Mecklinger, 1996), (3) syntactic integration difficulty (Kaan et al., 2000), and (4) any kind of linguistic parsing difficulty (semantic, morphosyntactic, or orthographic; Münte, Heinze, Matzke, Wieringa, & Johannes, 1998).”
Event-related brain potentials and second language learning: syntactic processing in late L2 learners at different L2 proficiency levels (2010, background): “The P600 is sensitive to (morpho) syntactic processing and occurs for syntactic violations (e.g. Osterhout and Holcomb, 1992) or syntactically complex structures (Kaan et al., 2000).”
Separating syntactic memory costs and syntactic integration costs during parsing: the processing of German WH-questions (2002, background): “In English, this is reflected in increased processing times at the verb (e.g., Ford, 1983; King & Just, 1991) and in P600 effects in event-related brain potentials at the same location in WH-questions (Kaan, Harris, Gibson, & Holcomb, 2000).”
How the brain solves the binding problem for language: a neurocomputational model of syntactic processing. (2003, background): “In a later latency range, positive shifts occur which are elicited not only by syntactic violations, but also in grammatically well-formed sentences that vary in complexity (Kaan et al., 2000) or as a function of the number of alternative syntactic structures that are compatible with the input at a ”
Seeing words in context: the interaction of lexical and sentence level information during reading. (2004, neutral): “[17]).”
Processing wh-dependencies in a second language: a cross-modal priming study (2007, background): “While LAN effects have been associated with WM storage, the so-called P600, or ‘syntactic positive shift’, has been claimed to reflect, inter alia, the cost of filler integration (Kaan et al., 2000; Fiebach et al., 2002; Felser et al., 2003).”
Prediction during language comprehension: benefits, costs, and ERP components. (2012, background): “Correct but syntactically complex sentences elicit larger P600s than simpler sentences, low-frequency verb argument structures elicit larger P600s than preferred argument structures, and garden path sentences elicit substantial P600s as compared to straightforward sentences (Kaan et al., 2000; Oster”
The linguistic processes underlying the P600 (2010, background): “…be possible to more clearly determine the contribution of syntactic dependency formation to ERP responses, as opposed to lexical differences and ambiguity of case or thematic roles, which was a possible confounding factor in previous studies on English (Kaan et al., 2000; Phillips et al., 2005).”
Electrophysiological correlates of second language processing (2005, neutral): “Syntactically incorrect words (dotted line) elicit a larger P600 at a centro-parietal electrode position (PZ) than syntactically correct words (solid line) (adapted from Hahne, 2001) indicate the difficulty of syntactic integration (Kaan et al., 2000).”