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Sociobiological Bases of Information Structure
Viviana Masia
[Advances in Interaction Studies 9] 2017
► pp. 111–142

Chapter 5
Experimental perspectives on information structure processing

Two electrophysiological studies

Article outline
  • 5.1Study 1. Electrophysiological response to presupposition vs. assertion of new information: Evidence from event-related potentials
    • 5.1.1Prelude
    • 5.1.2Limits of previous experimental research on presupposition processing
    • 5.1.3Study rationale and experimental predictions
    • 5.1.4Materials and method
      • 5.1.4.1Participants
      • 5.1.4.2Experimental design
      • 5.1.4.3Stimuli
    • 5.1.5Measures on materials
      • 5.1.5.1Naturalness
      • 5.1.5.2Readability and length
    • 5.1.6Procedure and task
    • 5.1.7EEG recording and analysis
  • 5.2Results
    • 5.2.1Behavioral task
    • 5.2.2ERP results
    • 5.2.3N400 analysis
    • 5.2.4Latency analysis
  • 5.3Discussion
  • 5.4Study 2. Power spectrum analysis of different frequency bands during the online processing of aligned and misaligned Topic-Focus structures
    • 5.4.1Prelude
    • 5.4.2Method
    • 5.4.3Predictions
    • 5.4.4Data recording
    • 5.4.5Data pre-processing
    • 5.4.6Results
    • 5.4.7Discussion
    • 5.4.8Concluding remarks
    • 5.5Information structure processing between bottom-up and top-down modalities
    • 5.6Summary and conclusion: Chapter Four and Chapter Five
  • Notes