TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints2100
UR  - http://cogprints.org/2100/
A1  - Mueller, Horst M.
A1  - Kutas, Marta
Y1  - 1996///
N2  - To investigate the neural processing of different word categories, we recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) from 32 individuals listening to sentences, beginning either with a proper name (first name), the subject's own name, or a common noun.  Names and nouns both elicited ERP waveforms with the same early componentry, but the N1 and P2 components were larger for proper names than common nouns.  The ERPs to the subject's own name also had a large N1/P2 plus a prominent negativity at parieto-central site peaking around 400 ms and a late positivity between 500-800 ms over left lateral-frontal sites.  These findings are consistent with differential processing of people's first names within the category of nouns.
KW  - auditory
KW  -  event-related potential (ERP)
KW  -  lexicon
KW  -  nouns
KW  -  proper names
KW  -  spoken language processing
KW  -  word categories
TI  - What's in a name?  Electrophysiological differences between spoken nouns, proper nouns and one's own name
SP  - 221
AV  - public
EP  - 225
ER  -

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