Linguistic Focus Promotes the Ease of Discourse Integration Processes in Reading Comprehension: Evidence From Event-Related Potentials

Linguistic Focus Promotes the Ease of Discourse Integration Processes in Reading Comprehension: Evidence From Event-Related Potentials

Psycholinguistic studies of focus processing have yielded varying results regarding how focus affects language processing. We report the results of an event-related potential (ERP) experiment that used question-answer pairs in a discourse to manipulate whether a target word was contextually focused,...

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Main Authors: Chin Lung Yang, Huili Zhang, Haifeng Duan, Haihua Pan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
focus processing
information structure
ERPs
P200
contrastive focus
informational focus
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02718/full

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https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02718/full

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