Stem Tones Pre-activate Suffixes in the Brain.

Stem Tones Pre-activate Suffixes in the Brain.:

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Stem Tones Pre-activate Suffixes in the Brain.

J Psycholinguist Res. 2017 ;

Authors: Söderström P, Horne M, Roll M

Abstract

Results from the present event-related potentials (ERP) study show that tones on Swedish word stems can rapidly pre-activate upcoming suffixes, even when the word stem does not carry any lexical meaning. Results also show that listeners are able to rapidly restore suffixes which are replaced with a cough. Accuracy in restoring suffixes correlated positively with the amplitude of an anterior negative ERP elicited by stem tones. This effect is proposed to reflect suffix pre-activation. Suffixes that were cued by an incorrect tone elicited a left-anterior negativity and a P600, suggesting that the correct processing of the suffix is crucially tied to the activation of the preceding validly associated tone.

PMID: 27240896 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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