Neuroscientists have captured hard evidence that
people detect and process grammatical errors
with no awareness of doing so.
Participants in the study—native-English speaking
people, ages 18-30—had their brain activity
recorded using electroencephalography, from
which researchers focused on a signal known as
the event-related potential (ERP). This noninvasive
technique allows for the capture of changes in
brain electrical activity during an event. In this
case, events were short sentences presented
visually one word at a time.
"Even when you don't pick up on a syntactic
error your brain is still picking up on it," Laura
Batterink of the University of Oregon, says.
"There is a brain mechanism recognizing it and
reacting to it, processing it unconsciously so
you understand it properly."
people detect and process grammatical errors
with no awareness of doing so.
Participants in the study—native-English speaking
people, ages 18-30—had their brain activity
recorded using electroencephalography, from
which researchers focused on a signal known as
the event-related potential (ERP). This noninvasive
technique allows for the capture of changes in
brain electrical activity during an event. In this
case, events were short sentences presented
visually one word at a time.
"Even when you don't pick up on a syntactic
error your brain is still picking up on it," Laura
Batterink of the University of Oregon, says.
"There is a brain mechanism recognizing it and
reacting to it, processing it unconsciously so
you understand it properly."
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