If, however, differential lexical meaning is important for long-term effects on auditory deviance detection, an effect of word class should be observed in the present study, because nouns differ in lexical meaning from functions words. There are two possible ways in which lexical meaning (word ...
The effects of lexical meaning and lexical familiarity on auditory deviance detection were investigated by presenting oddball sequences of words, while participants ignored the stimuli. Stimulus sequences were composed of words that were varied in word class (nouns vs. functions words) and frequency ...