N400-like Magnetoencephalography Responses Modulated by Semantic Context, Word Frequency, and Lexical Class in Sentences

By Eric Halgren, R. Dhond, Natalie Christensen, Cyma K Van Petten, Ksenija Marinkovic, J. Lewine, A. M. Dale. NeuroImage, 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience

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Frequency in lexical processing (2016, background): “Counts of occurrences of words (Rayner and Duffy, 1986; Gardner, Rothkopf, Lapan and Lafferty, 1987; Glanzer and Bowles, 1976; Grainger, 1990; Griffin and Bock, 1998; Jescheniak and Levelt, 1994; McRae, Jared and Seidenberg, 1990; Meunier and Segui, 1999; Scarborough, Cortese and Scarborough, 1977; ”
Neural mechanisms of language comprehension: challenges to syntax. (2007, unknown): “Determining whether its underlying neural sources are identical or shared with those underlying the P300 in simpler, non-linguistic paradigms will ultimately come from using ERPs in combination with other techniques such as fMRI and MEG.”
Adults and children processing music: An fMRI study (2005, background): “…reported to be involved in the processing of lexical-semantic aspects, i.e., meaning, of language (Baumgaertner et al., 2002; Démonet et al., 1992; Friederici, 2002; Friederici et al., 2000; Halgren et al., 2002; Helenius et al., 1998; Kuperberg et al., 2000; Ni et al., 2000; Price et al., 1997).”
Psycholinguistics Electrified II (1994–2005) (2006, methodology): “…of the N400m in the left superior and/or middle temporal gyri, with a more individually variable source in the homologous right hemisphere region (Halgren et al., 2002; Helenius, Salmelin, Service, & Connolly, 1998; Helenius et al, 2002; Kwon et al., 2005; Simos, Basile, & Papanicolaou, 1997).”
Temporal dynamics of late second language acquisition: evidence from event-related brain potentials (2009, background): “Difficulties in semantic processing typically elicit centroparietal negativities that peak about 400 milliseconds post stimulus (‘N400s’; Kutas and Hillyard, 1980), and depend particularly upon bilateral temporal lobe structures (Halgren et al., 2002; Van Petten and Luka, 2006).”
Nonparametric statistical testing of EEG- and MEG-data. (2007, methodology): “The N400 effect has been replicated in MEG studies and its primary sources have been localized in the left superior temporal sulcus (Simos et al., 1997; Helenius et al., 1998, 2002; Halgren et al., 2002) and the left prefrontal cortex (Halgren et al., 2002).”
Getting real about semantic illusions: rethinking the functional role of the P600 in language comprehension. (2012, background): “Lau et al. (2008) surveyed fifteen functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies of semantic priming and found that the posterior middle temporal gyrus (pMTG) was the most likely source of the N400-effect (see Halgren et al., 2002, for converging evidence from magnetoencephalography MEG).”
The time course of visual word recognition as revealed by linear regression analysis of ERP data (2006, methodology): “These techniques measure changes in electric voltage or magnetic field on or above the scalp, evoked by electrical activity in the brain produced when participants read words (e.g., Rugg et al., 1986; Kutas and Federmeier, 2000; Pulvermüller, 2001; Halgren et al., 2002; Friederici, 2004).”
Contextual expectations in the real-world modulate low-frequency neural oscillations (2025, unknown): “…to some previous research due to differences in reference electrode, although N400 semantic effects are also commonly localised to the left anterior temporal lobes (Halgren et al., 2002; Jackson et al., 2015; Lau et al., 2016; Nobre & McCarthy, 1995), which is consistent with our ERP effects.”