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    "title": "What You Ask Affects What You Get: Task-Dependent ERPs in the Processing of Syntactically Ambiguous Sentences",
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    "abstract": "Two experiments investigated how task demands influence sentence processing mechanisms, as reflected in neural responses at the disambiguating word. Participants read garden-path sentences with late-closure ambiguity (e.g., While the man hunted the deer ran into the woods) and answered comprehension questions while their brainwaves were recorded. Experiment 1 used standard questions (e.g., Did the man hunt the deer?), while Experiment 2 used \"explicit\" questions (e.g., Did the sentence explicitly say that the man hunted the deer?) to reduce inference-based responses. Results showed a typical P600 effect for ambiguous sentences in Experiment 1, indicating syntactic reanalysis. In Experiment 2, responses showed an N400 followed by Sustained Frontal Negativity, suggesting a shift toward plausibility evaluation and increased processing load. The explicit questions appear to alter underlying sentence processing mechanisms, prompting more effortful resolution of interpretive conflict beyond initial syntactic reanalysis.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Linguistics; Language Comprehension; Language understanding; Semantics of language; Syntax"
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    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation",
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        {
            "first_name": "Zhiying",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Qian",
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            "institution": "Florida State University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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