Re-examination of Chinese Semantic Processing and Syntactic Processing: Evidence from Conventional ERPs and Reconstructed ERPs by Residue Iteration Decomposition (RIDE)

Fang Wang; Guang Ouyang; Changsong Zhou; Suiping Wang

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-0207-6_71

Re-examination of Chinese Semantic Processing and Syntactic Processing: Evidence from Conventional ERPs and Reconstructed ERPs by Residue Iteration Decomposition (RIDE)

Fang Wang
, Guang Ouyang
, Changsong Zhou^*
, Suiping Wang

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Physics

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Abstract

Whether syntactic processing occured earlier than semantics during Chinese sentence reading was further explored by recording event-related potentials (ERPs) as Chinese speakers read individually presented Chinese simple sentences and made semantic plausibility judgments. There are three types of stimuli: congruent sentences (CON), sentences with a semantically violation (SEM), and sentences with combined semantic and syntactic violation (SEM + SYN). The ERPs were analyzed by using both conventional ERP method and new method residue iteration decomposition (RIDE) that aims to compensate trial-to-trial latency variability. Overall, there is non-significant difference between SEM and SEM + SYN in the earlier N400 time window. These results suggest that syntactic processing in Chinese does not occur earlier than semantic processing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (V)
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics - 2015
Editors	Rubin Wang, Xiaochuan Pan
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer
Pages	527-532
Number of pages	6
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811002076
ISBN (Print)	9789811002052, 9789811091049
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0207-6_71
Publication status	Published - 30 Jan 2016
Event	5th Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics, ICCN 2015 - Sanya, China Duration: 3 Jun 2015 → 7 Jun 2015

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Name	Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics
Publisher	Springer Singapore
ISSN (Print)	2213-3569
ISSN (Electronic)	2213-3577

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Conference	5th Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics, ICCN 2015
Country/Territory	China
City	Sanya
Period	3/06/15 → 7/06/15

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Wang, F., Ouyang, G., Zhou, C., & Wang, S. (2016). Re-examination of Chinese Semantic Processing and Syntactic Processing: Evidence from Conventional ERPs and Reconstructed ERPs by Residue Iteration Decomposition (RIDE). In R. Wang, & X. Pan (Eds.), Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (V): Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics - 2015 (1st ed., pp. 527-532). (Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0207-6_71

Wang, Fang ; Ouyang, Guang ; Zhou, Changsong et al. / Re-examination of Chinese Semantic Processing and Syntactic Processing : Evidence from Conventional ERPs and Reconstructed ERPs by Residue Iteration Decomposition (RIDE). Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (V): Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics - 2015. editor / Rubin Wang ; Xiaochuan Pan. 1st. ed. Singapore : Springer, 2016. pp. 527-532 (Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics).

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Wang, F, Ouyang, G, Zhou, C & Wang, S 2016, Re-examination of Chinese Semantic Processing and Syntactic Processing: Evidence from Conventional ERPs and Reconstructed ERPs by Residue Iteration Decomposition (RIDE). in R Wang & X Pan (eds), Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (V): Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics - 2015. 1st edn, Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics, Springer, Singapore, pp. 527-532, 5th Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics, ICCN 2015, Sanya, China, 3/06/15. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0207-6_71

Re-examination of Chinese Semantic Processing and Syntactic Processing: Evidence from Conventional ERPs and Reconstructed ERPs by Residue Iteration Decomposition (RIDE). / Wang, Fang; Ouyang, Guang; Zhou, Changsong et al.
Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (V): Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics - 2015. ed. / Rubin Wang; Xiaochuan Pan. 1st. ed. Singapore: Springer, 2016. p. 527-532 (Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics).

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