?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=ERP+analysis+of+cognitive+sequencing+%3A+a+left-anterior+negativity+related+to+structural+transformation+processing&rft.creator=Hoen%2C+Michel&rft.creator=Dominey%2C+Peter-Ford&rft.subject=Syntax&rft.subject=Neurolinguistics&rft.subject=Psycholinguistics&rft.description=A+major+objective+of+cognitive+neuroscience+is+to+identify+those+neurocomputational+processes+that+may+be+shared+by+multiple+cognitive+functions+vs+those+that+are+highly+specifc.+This+problem+of+identifying+general+vs+specialized+functions+is+of+particular+interest+in+the+domain+of+language+processing.+Within+this+domain%2C+event+related+brain+potential+(ERP)+studies+have+demonstrated+a+left+anterior+negativity+(LAN)+in+a+range+300+to+700+ms%2C+associated+with+syntactic+processing%2C+often+linked+to+grammatical+function+words.+These+words+have+little+or+no%0Asemantic+content%2C+but+rather+play+a+role+in+encoding+syntactic+structure+required+for+parsing.+In+the+current+study+we+test+the+hypothesis+that+the+LAN+reflects+the+operation+of+a+more+general+sequence+processing+capability+in+which+special+symbols+encode+structural+information+that%2C+when+combined+with+past+elements+in+the+sequence%2C+allows+the+prediction+of+successor+elements.+We+recorded+ERPs+during+a+non-linguistic+sequencing+task+that+required+subjects+(n%C3%A010)+to+process+special+symbols+possessing+the+functional+property+defined+above.+When+compared+to+ERPs+in+a+control+condition%2C+function+symbol+processing+elicits+a+left+anterior+negative+shift+between+with+temporal+and+spatial+characteristics+quite+similar+to+the+LAN+described+during+function+word+processing+in+language%2C+supporting%0Aour+hypothesis.+These+results+are+discussed+in+the%0Acontext+of+related+studies+of+syntactic+and+cognitive+sequence+processing.+&rft.publisher=Lippincott+Williams+and+Wilkins&rft.contributor=Lippincott%2C+&rft.date=2000-09&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2177%2F3%2FHoen_et_Dominey_Neuroreport_LAN_2000.pdf&rft.identifier=++Hoen%2C+Michel+and+Dominey%2C+Peter-Ford++(2000)+ERP+analysis+of+cognitive+sequencing+%3A+a+left-anterior+negativity+related+to+structural+transformation+processing.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2177%2F