Open Peer Commentary Caplan & Waters: Working memory and sentence comprehension
In-line measures of syntactic processing using event-related brain potentials
Marta Kutas a1andJonathan W. King a1 a1 Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0515
kutas@cogsci.ucsd.eduking@cogsci.ucsd.edu
Abstract
Scalp-recorded event-related potential (ERP) measures of
reading and listening have been proved more sensitive to the time
course of syntactic processing than the chronometric and behavioral
data described by Caplan & Waters. ERP studies using sentences
containing relative clauses indicate that there are individual
differences in syntactic processing that appear at the earliest
theoretically relevant time points and are attributable to working
memory operations.
