TY  - JOUR
AB  - 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.
DA  - 1996
KW  - Auditory
KW  - event-related potential
KW  - ERP
KW  - lexicon
KW  - nouns
KW  - proper names
KW  - spoken language processing
KW  - word categories
LA  - eng
M2  - 221
PY  - 1996
SP  - 221-225
T2  - NeuroReport
TI  - What´s in a name? Electrophysiological differences between spoken nouns, proper names, and one´s own name
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-19834020
Y2  - 2024-12-27T13:18:12
ER  -