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Yi Sun¹, Xiaoyang Luo¹

¹Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

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Summary

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Event-related potentials (ERPs) offer insights into language processing. This study maps the ERP research domain, highlighting sentence and reading comprehension, and speech perception as key areas for future exploration.

Keywords:

Citespace ERPs bibliometrics language systematic review

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Psycholinguistics
Bibliometrics

Background:

Event-related potentials (ERPs) are a novel cognitive neuroscience technique.
ERPs offer valuable insights into language processing.
A comprehensive overview of ERPs in language processing research is lacking.

Purpose of the Study:

To conduct a mapping-knowledge-domain analysis of ERP research on language processing.
To provide a comprehensive overview of the current research landscape.
To identify key research areas and future directions.

Main Methods:

Bibliometric analysis using Citespace software.
Survey and evaluation of literature from Web of Science.
Document co-citation, keyword co-occurrence, cluster, and burst detection analyses.

Main Results:

Spatial-temporal distribution of ERP language research outlined.
Key research focuses include sentence comprehension, reading comprehension, and mismatch negativity.
Emphasis on speech perception, temporal dynamics, and working memory.

Conclusions:

Future research should investigate larger linguistic units.
Explore the integration and functional significance of ERP components.
Scrutinize individual differences in language processing.