The syntactic and semantic processing of mass and count nouns: an ERP study.

The present study addressed the question of whether count and mass nouns are differentially processed in the brain. In two different ERP (Event-Related Potentials) tasks we explored the semantic and syntactic levels of such distinction. Mass and count nouns typically differ in concreteness, hence the effect of this important variable was factorially examined in each task.

Compounds in different aphasia categories: a study on picture naming.

This study investigated the production of compounds in Italian-speaking patients affected by different aphasia categories (i.e., Broca's, Wernicke's, and anomic aphasia) in a confrontation naming task.

Good division, but bad addition, subtraction and multiplication. A "leftmost-first" bug?

The present investigation reports the case of patient AS, ambidextrous, who showed a selective problem with arithmetical procedures in addition, subtraction and multiplication, contrasting with complete sparing of division. AS displayed a specific and never described "bug" error, involving the selection of digits that have to be added, subtracted or multiplied. This bug consisted in inverting the order of the numbers that have to be selected to correctly solve the operation.

Neural correlates of Italian nominal compounds and potential impact of headedness effect: an ERP study.

An event-related potential (ERP) technique was used to investigate the way in which noun-noun compounds are processed during a lexical decision task with Italian speakers. Reaction times and error rates were higher for compounds than for noncompounds. ERP data showed a more negative peak in the left anterior negativity (LAN) component for compounds.