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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Discourse Pragmatics

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  • Referential expressions in discourse have a dual function: linking to a referent and predicting its future use.
  • Previous event-related potential (ERP) research primarily investigated the form-to-function mapping of referential expressions.
  • The predictive function of antecedents in referential expressions remains less understood in ERP studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the interplay between the form-to-function mapping of referential expressions and predictions derived from their antecedents.
  • To examine how the combination of antecedent and anaphor forms influences neural activity during language comprehension.
  • To dissociate the backward-looking (form-to-function) and forward-looking (prediction) functions of referential expressions using ERPs.

Main Methods:

  • Employed naturalistic auditory language comprehension tasks.
  • Utilized event-related potentials (ERPs) to measure brain responses.
  • Analyzed ERPs time-locked to anaphoric expressions, considering antecedent and anaphor forms (pronoun vs. noun).

Main Results:

  • ERP results, specifically within the P300 and N400 time windows, demonstrated a dissociation between the two functions.
  • The study successfully differentiated the neural correlates of form-to-function mapping and prediction.
  • Evidence suggests that both functions are active during online language processing.

Conclusions:

  • The findings highlight the distinct cognitive roles of form-to-function mapping and prediction in discourse processing.
  • This research provides new insights into the neural mechanisms underlying anaphor resolution and predictive processing in language.
  • The study contributes to understanding how the brain integrates antecedent information with referential form for coherent discourse comprehension.