New Study on Presupposition
Cognitive Neuroscience Study
ERPs - Language Processing
A new study from Saarland University has shed light on the cognitive processes involved in presupposition, a linguistic phenomenon that has long puzzled researchers. The study, which was published in the journal Psycholinguistics, used electroencephalography (EEG) to measure the brain activity of participants as they processed sentences that contained presuppositions.
The results of the study showed that the brain responds differently to presuppositions than it does to other types of sentences. Specifically, the researchers found that the P600 effect, a type of brainwave that is associated with semantic processing, was larger for sentences that contained presuppositions than it was for sentences that did not. This suggests that the brain must do additional work to process presuppositions, which is consistent with the idea that presuppositions are a type of implicit meaning.
The study's findings have implications for our understanding of how language is processed in the brain. They also provide new insights into the nature of presupposition itself, and could lead to new ways of teaching and learning languages.
The study was conducted by a team of researchers led by Francesca Delogu, a professor of linguistics at Saarland University. The team included researchers from the University of Potsdam and the University of Cambridge.
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