Abstract
The N400 component of event related potentials (ERP) was studied in 27 right-handed healthy subjects in a speeded lexical decision task. The semantic distance between primes (always words) and targets (50% words, 50% non-words) was systematically varied. Prime–target relations included directly related words (hen–egg), indirectly related words (lemon–sweet), and non-related words (sofa–wing). ERPs were recorded from 20 scalp electrodes positioned according to the international 10–20 system. The N400 reflected semantic distance with the most negative and latest N400 peak in the non-related condition, the least negative and earliest N400 peak in the direct condition and the peak in the indirect condition in-between. Hence, N400 priming effect in the indirect condition was obtained in the absence of strong sentential constraints and even though the mediating word was physically not present.
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