Sentence examples for semantic incongruity from inspiring English sources

Here we show the reverse: the anterior negativity is insensitive to semantic incongruity.

We compared semantic processing of texted and standard English sentences by recording event-related potentials in a classic semantic incongruity paradigm designed to elicit an N400 effect.

Thus, co-occurrence of conjunction with discontinuity may demand an even more substantive updating process to reconcile the structural revision and/or spatial inference with the semantic incongruity.

The amplitude and distribution of the N400 effect (300 500 ms) in the texted and standard English conditions were similar, but the text semantic incongruity effect was characterized by a delayed peak latency and an extended duration into the 500 700 ms epoch.

In contrast, the LPF appeared responsive to semantic incongruity.

The strongest activity at this latency was evoked by the incongruous endings in both left and right anterior temporal regions (Figs.  2 and 4), replicating a well-known sensitivity of the N400 and its magnetic equivalent to semantic incongruity (Halgren et al., 2002; Kutas & Hillyard, 1980; Van Petten & Luka, 2006).

These findings indicate that different pre-frontal regions facilitate mood-congruent and incongruent encoding of successfully recalled negative words at the time of learning, with OFC enhancing congruency and the left IFG and MFG helping overcome semantic incongruities between mood and stimulus valence.

For example, Steinbeis and Koelsch [32] showed an interaction between the N5 and the N400 (elicited by semantic incongruities in language), suggesting that the integration of expected and unexpected events into a larger, meaningful musical context consumes partly resources that are also engaged in the processing of linguistic semantics.

The funny and incongruous endings did not differ significantly, suggesting that this area may contribute to detection of semantic ambiguity and incongruity with the preceding context.

In support of this, Jenkins et al. [34] provide recent neuroimaging evidence that demonstrates that East Asians are more affected than Westerners by incongruity of semantic relationships between objects and scenes, consistent with previous behavioral studies on the emphasis of functional relational categorizations in East Asians [35].

In addition, metric incongruities seem to influence semantic processing.