Table 1.
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)