Electrophysiological evidence of the semantic and phonological encoding in Mandarin Chinese production

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Event Abstract Back to Event Electrophysiological evidence of the semantic and phonological encoding in Mandarin Chinese production Yi-Shiuan Chiu1, 2* and O.I Lou1 1 Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan 2 National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan The psycholonguistic debates of serial and parallel models in language production were investigated by alphabetic languages, such as German. This study which studied the topic by an nonalphabetic language, Mandarin Chinese, would provide more complete understanding of language production. Here, two event-related potential (ERP) components were used to explore the time course of semantic and phonological encoding during implicit picture naming in Chinese. Participants were shown the pictures and made dual choice go/nogo decisions based on semantic features (whether the depicted items were animate or inanimate) and phonological features (whether the Chinese names of the depicted items were ended with phonetic symbols “ㄠ/ao” or “ㄤ/ ang”). The components of the lateralized readiness potential (LRP) and N200 were presumbly related to repsonse preparation and response inhibition. The results showed that the pick latencies of the N200 were signicantly earlier in the hand=semantics condition than in the hand=phonology condition. Also the amplitude of go LRP on was more negative in the hand=semantics than in the hand=phonology condition. Therefore, the results indicate a serial processing model of language production in Mandarin Chinese, and they are congruent with the findings in related alphabetic languages. pic1 tn_pic1 Conference: 10th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, Bodrum, Turkey, 1 Sep - 5 Sep, 2008. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Language Citation: Chiu Y and Lou O (2008). Electrophysiological evidence of the semantic and phonological encoding in Mandarin Chinese production. Conference Abstract: 10th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.09.2009.01.244 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 09 Dec 2008; Published Online: 09 Dec 2008. * Correspondence: Yi-Shiuan Chiu, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan, 069188@mail.fju.edu.tw Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Yi-Shiuan Chiu O.I Lou Google Yi-Shiuan Chiu O.I Lou Google Scholar Yi-Shiuan Chiu O.I Lou PubMed Yi-Shiuan Chiu O.I Lou Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.