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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computational Linguistics

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  • Expectation-based theories, like Surprisal theory, explain language processing using anticipation effects.
  • Online language measures often confound expectancy with lexical association, obscuring specific neural correlates of expectancy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To isolate and identify the neural and behavioral correlates of expectancy in language processing.
  • To differentiate the roles of expectancy and lexical association in comprehension.

Main Methods:

  • An event-related potential (ERP) experiment and a self-paced reading experiment were conducted.
  • Expectancy and lexical association were independently manipulated within a contextual design.

Main Results:

  • Event-related potentials showed the N400 component sensitive to both expectancy and association, while the P600 was modulated solely by expectancy.
  • Reading times indicated effects of both association and expectancy initially, with expectancy alone dominating later regions.
  • Exploratory analysis suggested a continuous relationship for the P600, not just violation sensitivity.

Conclusions:

  • The N400 reflects lexical retrieval influenced by both expectation and association.
  • The P600 and reading times appear to reflect meaning-based surprisal, supporting expectation-driven comprehension.
  • Findings align with the Retrieval-Integration account of language processing.