creators_name: Mueller, H.M.
creators_name: Kutas, M.
type: journalp
datestamp: 1998-04-02
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:37
metadata_visibility: show
title: What's in a name?  Electrophysiological differences between spoken nouns, proper nouns and one's own name
ispublished: pub
subjects: neuro-ling
subjects: psy-ling
full_text_status: public
keywords: auditory, event-related potential (ERP), lexicon, nouns, proper names, spoken language processing, word categories
abstract: To investigate the neural processing of different word categories, we recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) from 32 individuals listening to sentences, beginning either with a proper name (first name), the subject's own name, or a common noun.  Names and nouns both elicited ERP waveforms with the same early componentry, but the N1 and P2 components were larger for proper names than common nouns.  The ERPs to the subject's own name also had a large N1/P2 plus a prominent negativity at parieto-central site peaking around 400 ms and a late positivity between 500-800 ms over left lateral-frontal sites.  These findings are consistent with differential processing of people's first names within the category of nouns.
date: 1996
date_type: published
publication: NeuroReport
volume: 8
pagerange: 221-225
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Mueller, H.M. and Kutas, M.  (1996) What's in a name? Electrophysiological differences between spoken nouns, proper nouns and one's own name.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/13/1/Mueller_%26_Kutas.html