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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Auditory Processing

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  • Understanding how the brain processes spoken language.
  • Investigating the role of prosody and tone in word recognition.
  • Examining predictive mechanisms in speech perception.

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  • To investigate the rapid pre-activation of word suffixes by tones on word stems.
  • To explore the brain's ability to restore missing speech segments.
  • To determine the neural correlates of suffix prediction and restoration.

Main Methods:

  • Event-related potentials (ERP) recorded during auditory lexical decision tasks.
  • Presentation of Swedish word stems with tones, some followed by intact or masked suffixes.
  • Analysis of ERP components, including anterior negativity and P600, in response to tones and suffixes.

Main Results:

  • Tones on word stems rapidly pre-activate upcoming suffixes, irrespective of lexical meaning.
  • Listeners demonstrated rapid restoration of suffixes masked by a cough sound.
  • Accuracy in suffix restoration correlated positively with the amplitude of an anterior negative ERP component.

Conclusions:

  • Suffix pre-activation is a rapid process influenced by auditory cues (tones) on word stems.
  • The anterior negativity ERP component reflects this pre-activation mechanism.
  • Accurate suffix processing is dependent on the correct association between auditory cues and expected word parts, as evidenced by left-anterior negativity and P600 responses to mismatched cues.