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  • Title: The lateral distribution of event-related potentials during sentence processing.
    Author: Kutas M, Hillyard SA.
    Journal: Neuropsychologia; 1982; 20(5):579-90. PubMed ID: 7145083.
    Abstract:
    Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded from adults as they read 160 different sentences, half of which ended with a semantically anomalous word. These deviant words elicited a broad, negative component (N400). Measured in the difference wave between ERPs to incongruous and congruous endings, the N400 was slightly larger and more prolonged over the right than the left hemisphere and diminished in amplitude over the course of the experiment. A left-greater-than-right asymmetry was again observed in the slow, positive ERP elicited by the first six words in the sentences, being most pronounced for subjects having no left-handers in their immediate family.
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