Electrophysiological and behavioral measures of the inXuence of literal and Wgurative contextual constraints on proverb comprehension  

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Ferretti, Todd R. ; Schwint, Christopher A. ; Katz, Albert N.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 101 no. 1 (2007), page 38-49.
Topik: Proverb comprehension; Slow-cortical waves; ERP; N400; Late positivity; Self-paced reading
Fulltext: 101_01_Ferretti.pdf (686.63KB)

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Proverbs tend to have meanings that are true both literally and Wguratively (i.e., Lightning really doesn’t strike the same place twice). Consequently, discourse contexts that invite a literal reading of a proverb should provide more conceptual overlap with the proverb, resulting in more rapid processing, than will contexts biased towards a non-literal reading. Despite this, previous research has failed to Wnd the predicted processing advantage in reading times for familiar proverbs when presented in a literally biasing context. We investigate this issue further by employing both ERP methodology and a self-paced reading task and, second, by creating an item set that controls for problems with items employed in earlier studies. Our results indicate that although people do not take longer to read proverbs in the literally and proverbially biasing contexts, people have less diYculty integrating the statements in literal than Wgurative contexts, as shown by the ERP data. These diVerences emerge at the third word of the proverbs.

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