Indeed, it seems tempting to conclude that the P600 in the neutral group is a marker of well-formedness evaluation grounded in the default expectation of semantic congruency, and that the P600 in the poetry group reflects pragmatic processing triggered by the knowledge that superficially incongruent sentences may in fact be highly significant in poetic contexts.
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Sentence-Level Effects of Literary Genre: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence.
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Neither the main effect of Dative nor the interaction effect of Instruction and Dative approached significance (all F s < 1, all p s > 0.4).
Zero DAT trials showed a trend toward a reaction time advantage for Incongruent SEM vs.