Dissociation of the Confounding Influences of Expectancy and Integrative Difficulty Residing in Anomalous Sentences in Event-related Potential StudiesYunlong Huang 1, Minghu Jiang 1, Qian Guo 2, Yuling Wang 1, Fan-Pei Gloria Yang 3
1Center for Psychology and Cognitive Science, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University, 2Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University, 3Center for Cognition and Mind Sciences, Lab for Language and Cognitive Neurology, National TsingHua University
We present a protocol to dissociate the intertwining factors of integrative difficulty and unexpectedness in semantically anomalous sentences by applying multiple repetitions to enhance participant's expectancy for anomalous sentences. The dissociation helps to investigate the major contributor of elicited event-related potentials (ERP) effects such as N400 in language studies.
