TY - JOUR
T1 - Working Memory Effects of Gap-Predictions in Normal Adults
T2 - An Event-Related Potentials Study
AU - Hestvik, Arild
AU - Bradley, Evan
AU - Bradley, Catherine
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments The current research was supported by a UNIDEL grant from the University of Delaware to the author. We thank our lab assistants Catherine Bradley, Tyler Prescott, Megan Kaufmann, Lauren Spara-cino and Amanda Acca for assisting with the data collection for the current study and the University of Delaware undergraduates who volunteered as research participants. Stimulus materials are available from author upon request.
PY - 2012/12
Y1 - 2012/12
N2 - The current study examined the relationship between verbal memory span and the latency with which a filler-gap dependency is constructed. A previous behavioral study found that low span listeners did not exhibit antecedent reactivation at gap sites in relative clauses, in comparison to high verbal memory span subjects (Roberts et al. in J Psycholinguist Res 36(2):175-188, 2007), which suggests that low span subjects are delayed at gap filling. This possibility was examined in the current study. Using an event-related potentials paradigm, it was found that low span subjects have an onset latency delay of about 200 ms in brain responses to violations of syntactic expectancies after the gap site, thus providing a time course measure of the delay hypothesized by previous literature.
AB - The current study examined the relationship between verbal memory span and the latency with which a filler-gap dependency is constructed. A previous behavioral study found that low span listeners did not exhibit antecedent reactivation at gap sites in relative clauses, in comparison to high verbal memory span subjects (Roberts et al. in J Psycholinguist Res 36(2):175-188, 2007), which suggests that low span subjects are delayed at gap filling. This possibility was examined in the current study. Using an event-related potentials paradigm, it was found that low span subjects have an onset latency delay of about 200 ms in brain responses to violations of syntactic expectancies after the gap site, thus providing a time course measure of the delay hypothesized by previous literature.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10936-011-9197-8
DO - 10.1007/s10936-011-9197-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 22249902
AN - SCOPUS:84867882807
SN - 0090-6905
VL - 41
SP - 425
EP - 438
JO - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
JF - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
IS - 6
ER -