Recently, we observed that the perception of word meaning, as measured with the N400 component of the event-related brain potential, is delayed but unimpaired by various additional tasks when the language task requires the processing of semantic properties of the word stimuli. In the present study, we assessed whether similar effects would be observed when the language task relates to acoustic rather than to semantic properties of the word stimuli. The N400 was elicited by synonymous and non-synonymous spoken noun pairs that were to be classified according to tone pitch. In a single task experiment, there was a small but clear synonymity effect in ERPs (N400), indicating the availability of word meaning to the semantic system. Additional processing load, imposed by an overlapping task, abolished N400 for all SOAs when stimulus-response assignments were incompatible. For compatible assignments, N400 amplitude was present but much attenuated at the longest SOA. We conclude that the availability of task-irrelevant meaning is modulated by additional task load and decay in short-term memory.
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