--- abstract: "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." altloc: - http://www.chapmanhall.com/nr/sample/nr080145.pdf chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Mueller given: Horst M. honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Kutas given: Marta honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1996 date_type: published datestamp: 2002-02-21 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/21/00 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 2100 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/2100/3/1510.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'auditory, event-related potential (ERP), lexicon, nouns, proper names, spoken language processing, word categories' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:53 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 221-225 pubdom: FALSE publication: NeuroReport publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:42:50 subjects: - ling-sem - neuro-ling - psy-ling succeeds: 13 suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: "What's in a name? Electrophysiological differences between spoken nouns, proper nouns and one's own name" type: journalp userid: 119 volume: 8