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Temporal characteristics of online syntactic sentence planning: An event-related potential study

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Timmers, Inge [Maastricht University] Gentile, Francesco [UCL] Rubio-Gozalbo, M. Estela [Maastricht University] Jansma, Bernadette M. [Maastricht University]

During sentence production, linguistic information (semantics, syntax, phonology) of words is retrieved and assembled into a meaningful utterance. There is still debate on how we assemble single words into more complex syntactic structures such as noun phrases or sentences. In the present study, event-related potentials (ERPs) were used to investigate the time course of syntactic planning. Thirty-three volunteers described visually animated scenes using naming formats varying in syntactic complexity: from simple words ('W', e.g., "triangle", "red", "square", "green", "to fly towards"), to noun phrases ('NP', e.g., "the red triangle", "the green square", "to fly towards"), to a sentence ('S', e.g., "The red triangle flies towards the green square."). Behaviourally, we observed an increase in errors and corrections with increasing syntactic complexity, indicating a successful experimental manipulation. In the ERPs following scene onset, syntactic complexity variations were found in a P300-like component ('S'/'NP'>'W') and a fronto-central negativity (linear increase with syntactic complexity). In addition, the scene could display two actions - unpredictable for the participant, as the disambiguation occurred only later in the animation. Time-locked to the moment of visual disambiguation of the action and thus the verb, we observed another P300 component ('S'>'NP'/'W'). The data show for the first time evidence of sensitivity to syntactic planning within the P300 time window, time-locked to visual events critical of syntactic planning. We discuss the findings in the light of current syntactic planning views. © 2013 Timmers et al.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2013
Language Anglais
Journal information "PLoS One" - Vol. 8, no. 12 (2013)
Peer reviewed yes
issn 1932-6203
e-issn 1932-6203
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute
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Bibliographic reference Timmers, Inge ; Gentile, Francesco ; Rubio-Gozalbo, M. Estela ; Jansma, Bernadette M.. Temporal characteristics of online syntactic sentence planning: An event-related potential study. In: PLoS One, Vol. 8, no. 12 (2013)
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