Journal article
EXPRESS: Phonological Mismatch Initiates Inhibitory Control of Failed Predictions During Sentence Comprehension
Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006), Vol.79(5), pp.1094-1109
05/2026
DOI: 10.1177/17470218251398828
PMID: 41222096
Abstract
False predictions during sentence comprehension are a frequent phenomenon. Recent research has shown that in highly constrained sentences, inhibitory mechanisms are engaged to suppress false predictions. However, little is known about what specifically leads to this inhibition. Sixty-eight monolingual English-speaking adults participated in the current study to examine what triggers the inhibition of predicted words. We utilized the Cross-Modal Lexical Priming (CMLP) paradigm. Participants performed a visual lexical decision task (LDT) immediately after listening to incomplete sentences and sentences containing violations that did not match their prediction. In Experiment 1, violation sentences ended in pseudowords that contained a phonological mismatch, while in Experiment 2, violation sentences ended in environmental sounds that contained a semantic mismatch. To examine whether the predicted word was inhibited in each case, we compared LDT reaction times (RTs) to predicted words across sentence conditions. Results showed that LDT RTs to the predicted word were significantly slower after pseudowords, but not environment sounds. Taken together with previous work, this suggests that lexico-semantic information may not be required to trigger inhibition. While pseudoword violations-stimuli that resemble real words but lack meaning-inhibit false predictions, semantic mismatch alone may be insufficient to elicit inhibition.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- EXPRESS: Phonological Mismatch Initiates Inhibitory Control of Failed Predictions During Sentence Comprehension
- Creators
- Jina Kim - University of Iowa, Communication Sciences and DisordersJan Wessel - University of IowaKristi Hendrickson - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006), Vol.79(5), pp.1094-1109
- DOI
- 10.1177/17470218251398828
- PMID
- 41222096
- NLM abbreviation
- Q J Exp Psychol (Hove)
- ISSN
- 1747-0226
- eISSN
- 1747-0226
- Publisher
- Sage
- Grant note
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: R01 NS102201 National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders: R01 DC020143
The author disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The current study was supported by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01 NS102201) awarded to the Jan R. Wessel and National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01 DC020143) awarded to the Kristi Hendrickson.
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 11/12/2025
- Date published
- 05/2026
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Neurology; Communication Sciences and Disorders; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9985026350902771
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