Background Schizophrenia is characterized by small reductions in cortical gray matter
volume, particularly in the temporal and prefrontal cortices. The question of whether cortical …

In 1980, the N400 event-related potential was described in association with semantic
anomalies within sentences. When, in 1992, a second waveform, the P600, was reported in …

We consider several key aspects of prediction in language comprehension: its computational
nature, the representational level(s) at which we predict, whether we use higher-level …

The aim of this study was to determine whether or not the brain distinguishes between two
types of conceptual relationships between noun-phrases (NPs) and verbs during online …

… GR Kuperberg and PK McGuire … Kuperberg and Edward T. Bullmore are supported by the
Wellcome Trust. … Kuperberg. We would like to acknowledge Chris Andrew, Andrew Simmons…

This is the first of two articles that discuss higher‐order language and semantic processing
in schizophrenia. This article reviews clinical characterizations of language output and the …

When a word is preceded by a supportive context such as a semantically associated word
or a strongly constraining sentence frame, the N400 component of the ERP is reduced in …

Our brains rapidly map incoming language onto what we hold to be true. Yet there are
claims that such integration and verification processes are delayed in sentences containing …

The aim of this study was to gain further insights into how the brain distinguishes between
meaning and syntax during language comprehension. Participants read and made plausibility …

Recent event-related potential studies report a P600 effect to incongruous verbs preceded by
semantically associated inanimate noun–phrase (NP) arguments, eg, “eat” in “At breakfast …