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New is not always costly: evidence from online processing of topic and contrast in Japanese

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013
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Title
New is not always costly: evidence from online processing of topic and contrast in Japanese
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Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00363
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Authors

Luming Wang, Petra B. Schumacher

Abstract

Two visual ERP experiments were conducted to investigate topic and contrast assigned by various cues such as discourse context, sentential position, and marker during referential processing in Japanese. Experiment 1 showed that there was no N400-difference for new vs. given noun phrases (NPs) when the new NP was expected (contrastively focused) based on its preceding context and sentential position. Experiment 2 further revealed that the N400 for new NPs can be modulated by the NP's contrastive meaning (exhaustivity) induced from the marker. Both experiments also showed that new NPs engendered an increased Late Positivity. The reduced N400 for new vs. given supports an expectation-based linking mechanism. In addition, costs that were consistently observed for new vs. given entities emerged in a subsequent process, in which the new NP's occurrence requires updating and correcting of the discourse representation built so far, which is indexed by an enhanced Late Positivity. We argue that the overall data pattern should be best explained within a multi-stream model of discourse processing.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 35 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 9%
Researcher 3 9%
Other 4 11%
Unknown 8 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Linguistics 18 51%
Psychology 4 11%
Engineering 2 6%
Computer Science 1 3%
Neuroscience 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 8 23%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 July 2013.
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#13,311,482
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#555
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