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When peanuts fall in love: N400 evidence for the power of discourse by Nieuwland, Mante S, Van Berkum, Jos J A

“…In linguistic theories of how sentences encode meaning, a distinction is often made between the context-free rule-based combination of lexical-semantic…”
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Semantic integration in sentences and discourse: evidence from the N400 by van Berkum, J J, Hagoort, P, Brown, C M

“…In two ERP experiments we investigated how and when the language comprehension system relates an incoming word to semantic representations of an unfolding…”
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The neural integration of speaker and message by Van Berkum, Jos J A, van den Brink, Danielle, Tesink, Cathelijne M J Y, Kos, Miriam, Hagoort, Peter

“…When do listeners take into account who the speaker is? We asked people to listen to utterances whose content sometimes did not match inferences based on the…”
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Anticipating Upcoming Words in Discourse: Evidence From ERPs and Reading Times by VanBerkum, Jos J. A, Brown, Colin M, Zwitserlood, Pienie, Kooijman, Valesca, Hagoort, Peter

“…The authors examined whether people can use their knowledge of the wider discourse rapidly enough to anticipate specific upcoming words as a sentence is…”
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Event-related brain potentials reflect discourse-referential ambiguity in spoken language comprehension by Van Berkum, Jos J. A., Brown, Colin M., Hagoort, Peter, Zwitserlood, Pienie

“…In two experiments, we explored the use of event‐related brain potentials to selectively track the processes that establish reference during spoken language…”
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Unification of Speaker and Meaning in Language Comprehension: An fMRI Study by Tesink, Cathelijne M. J. Y, Petersson, Karl Magnus, van Berkum, Jos J. A, van den Brink, Danielle, Buitelaar, Jan K, Hagoort, Peter

“…When interpreting a message, a listener takes into account several sources of linguistic and extralinguistic information. Here we focused on one particular…”
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Who are you talking about? Tracking discourse-level referential processing with event-related brain potentials by Nieuwland, Mante S, Otten, Marte, Van Berkum, Jos J A

“…In this event-related brain potentials (ERPs) study, we explored the possibility to selectively track referential ambiguity during spoken discourse…”
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Great expectations: specific lexical anticipation influences the processing of spoken language by Otten, Marte, Nieuwland, Mante S, Van Berkum, Jos J A

“…Recently several studies have shown that people use contextual information to make predictions about the rest of the sentence or story as the text unfolds…”
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Right or Wrong? The Brain's Fast Response to Morally Objectionable Statements by Van Berkum, Jos J.A., Holleman, Bregje, Nieuwland, Mante, Otten, Marte, Murre, Jaap

“…How does the brain respond to statements that clash with a person's value system? We recorded eventrelated brain potentials while respondents from contrasting…”
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Emotion in Stories: Facial EMG Evidence for Both Mental Simulation and Moral Evaluation by 't Hart, Björn, Struiksma, Marijn E, van Boxtel, Anton, van Berkum, Jos J A

“…Facial electromyography research shows that corrugator supercilii ("frowning muscle") activity tracks the emotional valence of linguistic stimuli. Grounded or…”
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Retrieval and Unification of Syntactic Structure in Sentence Comprehension: an fMRI Study Using Word-Category Ambiguity by Snijders, Tineke M., Vosse, Theo, Kempen, Gerard, Van Berkum, Jos J.A., Petersson, Karl Magnus, Hagoort, Peter

“…Sentence comprehension requires the retrieval of single word information from long-term memory, and the integration of this information into multiword…”
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Does working memory capacity affect the ability to predict upcoming words in discourse? by Otten, Marte, Van Berkum, Jos J.A

“…Abstract Prior research has indicated that readers and listeners can use information in the prior discourse to rapidly predict specific upcoming words, as the…”
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Discourse-Based Word Anticipation During Language Processing: Prediction or Priming? by Otten, Marte, Van Berkum, Jos J. A.

“…Language is an intrinsically open-ended system. This fact has led to the widely shared assumption that readers and listeners do not predict upcoming words, at…”
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Individual differences and contextual bias in pronoun resolution: Evidence from ERPs by Nieuwland, Mante S., Van Berkum, Jos J.A.

“…Although we usually have no trouble finding the right antecedent for a pronoun, the co-reference relations between pronouns and antecedents in everyday…”
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Tracking Affective Language Comprehension: Simulating and Evaluating Character Affect in Morally Loaded Narratives by 't Hart, Björn, Struiksma, Marijn E, van Boxtel, Anton, van Berkum, Jos J A

“…Facial electromyography research shows that corrugator supercilii ("frowning muscle") activity tracks the emotional valence of linguistic stimuli. Grounded or…”
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Do self-talk phrases affect behavior in ultimatum games? by Frey, Vincenz, De Mulder, Hannah N. M., ter Bekke, Marlijn, Struiksma, Marijn E., van Berkum, Jos J. A., Buskens, Vincent

“…The current study investigates whether self-talk phrases can influence behavior in Ultimatum Games. In our three self-talk treatments, participants were…”
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How robust is the language architecture? The case of mood by Van Berkum, Jos J A, De Goede, Dieuwke, Van Alphen, Petra M, Mulder, Emma R, Kerstholt, José H

“…In neurocognitive research on language, the processing principles of the system at hand are usually assumed to be relatively invariant. However, research on…”
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No laughing matter: How the presence of laughing witnesses changes the perception of insults by Otten, Marte, Mann, Liesbeth, van Berkum, Jos J.A., Jonas, Kai J.

“…Insults always sting, but the context in which they are delivered can make the effects even worse. Here we test how the brain processes insults, and whether…”
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What makes a discourse constraining? Comparing the effects of discourse message and scenario fit on the discourse-dependent N400 effect by Otten, Marte, Van Berkum, Jos J.A

“…Abstract A discourse context provides a reader with a great deal of information that can provide constraints for further language processing, at several…”
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The interplay between semantic and referential aspects of anaphoric noun phrase resolution: Evidence from ERPs by Nieuwland, Mante S., Van Berkum, Jos J.A.

“…In this event-related brain potential (ERP) study, we examined how semantic and referential aspects of anaphoric noun phrase resolution interact during…”
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