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SUBMITTER: Ryskin R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7943179 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Language, cognition and neuroscience 20190627 6
Language comprehension is shaped by world knowledge. After hearing about "a farm animal," meanings of typical ("cow") versus atypical exemplars ("ox") are more accessible, as evidenced by N400 responses. Moreover, atypical exemplars elicit a larger post-N400 frontal positivity than typical and incongruous ("ivy") exemplars, indexing the integration of unexpected information. Do listeners adapt this category knowledge to specific talkers? We first replicated typicality effects in the auditory mod ...[more]