# ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY OF LINGUISTIC PROCESSING

> **NIH NIH R01** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · 1994 · $203,608

## Abstract

DESCRIPTION (Investigator's Abstract):  The global aim of the research
outlined in this proposal is to expand the investigators knowledge of the
psychological and physiological bases of meaning. The primary approach
will involve the recording of event-related potentials (ERPs) to
linguistic and pictorial stimuli from scalp electrodes in normal intact
human subjects. Current evidence suggests that the N400 component of the
ERP is an electrophysiological index of some aspect of word processing
(possibly word recognition) which reflects the influence of semantic
context at both the lexical and sentential levels.  The proposed
experiments are designed to further examine these hypotheses and to then
use these components to address specific questions about the cognitive
processes involved in comprehension. Specifically the first four
experiments focus on the degree to which sentence level semantics,
pragmatics and syntax dominate or can alter the processing of purely
lexical relationships.  Experiments five through nine are designed to
determine the extent to which pragmatic and lexical factors influence the
processing of whether the nature or time course of the meaning derived
from a written word differs from that derived from a picture.  The goal
here is to allow inferences about amodal versus linguistic representations
of meaning.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 2198600
- **Project number:** 5R01HD022614-08
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
- **SAM.gov UEI:** UYTTZT6G9DT1
- **Principal Investigator:** MARTA KUTAS
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 1994
- **Award amount:** $203,608
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1986-12-01 → 1996-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2198600

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 2198600, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY OF LINGUISTIC PROCESSING (5R01HD022614-08). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-25 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/2198600. Licensed CC0.

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