When Peanuts Fall in Love: N400 Evidence for the Power of Discourse

By Mante S. Nieuwland, J. V. van Berkum. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2005

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Understanding Sentences in Context What Brain Waves Can Tell Us (2008, background): “In a cartoonlike story about an amorous peanut, for example, the contextually appropriate sentence ‘‘the peanut is in love’’ elicits a smaller N400 at the last word than a much more typical sentence like ‘‘the peanut is salted’’ ( Nieuwland & Van Berkum, 2006 ).”
Anomalies in real and counterfactual worlds : An eye-movement investigation (2008, methodology): “Please cite this article in press as: Ferguson, H. J., & Sanford, ..., Journal of Memory and Language (2007), doi:10.”
Semantics and the electrophysiology of meaning: Tense, aspect, event structure (2004, background): “Nieuwland and van Berkum [148] show that sentences which are otherwise sensible, like”
An alternative perspective on "semantic P600" effects in language comprehension. (2008, unknown): “This modulating influence of discourse is also compatible with the finding that the effects of lexical specifications (like animacy) and their influence on the N400 can be altered by a suitable discourse context (Nieuwland and van Berkum, 2006).”
The Neural Integration of Speaker and Message (2008, background): “Other evidence from the N400 already indicated that words are immediately related to a prior narrative discourse (e.g., Nieuwland & Van Berkum, 2006; Van Berkum et al., 2003; Van Berkum, Hagoort, & Brown, 1999; St. George, Mannes, & Hoffman, 1994), and to one’s knowledge of the world (Hagoort et a”