For the whole group of learners, the P2 modulation correlated with behavioural performance in rule-learning in the third minute of exposition.
He wasn't afraid to drop in lots of exposition, break all the rules, and he gets away with it.
He loves tricks of exposition, feints, counterintuitions, turning the rules of composition inside out and upside down, but his best work is also seductive and stylish.
A closer look at the group of participants who clearly learned the rules (good learners) shows that from the first minute of exposition, some individuals show an N400, and begin to show a P2 increase.
When these mechanisms are engaged, the electrophysiological marker associated with rule-learning appears very quickly, during the earliest phases of exposition to a new language.
Defying another rule of fiction, "Sunset Park" is written mostly in summary, large chunks of exposition in which we are told exactly what each character is thinking, feeling, facing.
Even at the level of exposition, the book is breathless.
Can that chunk of exposition be diversified by dialogue?
Some very bland sexuality and near-lethal levels of exposition.
So was the occasional flat-footed piece of exposition.
Best plot device ever, it saves a ton of exposition.
