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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Social Interaction

Background:

  • Studying real-time language processing in social interactions is challenging.
  • The word-by-word paradigm offers a controlled method for dyadic communication research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and validate the word-by-word paradigm for studying coordinated interaction.
  • To investigate neural and behavioral responses to semantic expectation violations during conversation.

Main Methods:

  • 13 pairs of participants engaged in scripted word-by-word sentence generation.
  • Simultaneous wireless electroencephalography (EEG) recorded neural activity.
  • Semantic contexts were primed, with unexpected continuations in 25% of sentences.
  • Event-related potentials (ERPs) and reaction times (RTs) were measured.

Main Results:

  • Amplitude differences in P200-N400-P600 ERPs were observed for unexpected versus expected words.
  • Speech and reaction times were successfully assessed.
  • The findings support the hypothesis of measurable neural and behavioral responses to semantic violations in interaction.

Conclusions:

  • The word-by-word paradigm is effective for studying expectation building in dyadic interactions.
  • This method allows for the measurement of ERPs and RTs to semantically unexpected words during real-time conversation.