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. 2007 Jul 31;1(4):317–325. doi: 10.1007/s11571-007-9023-z

Table 1.

Sample sentences used in the experiment described

  Condition Example
A Control Der Priester wurde gerufen.
The priest was called.
B Semantic mismatch Der Priester wurde gepflanzt.
The priest was planted.

Sentences like the one in B are known to elicit a negative going waveform in the EEG relative to a control sentence like A (Kutas and Hillyard 1980)