The EEG/ERP technologies in linguistic research: An essay on the advantages they offer and a survey of their purveyors

Stemmer, Brigitte; Connolly, John F.

doi:10.1075/ml.6.1.06ste

Article published In: Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research (Part II)
Edited by Gonia Jarema, Gary Libben † and Chris Westbury
[The Mental Lexicon 6:1] 2011
► pp. 141–170

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The EEG/ERP technologies in linguistic research

An essay on the advantages they offer and a survey of their purveyors

Brigitte Stemmer | Centre de Recherche, Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (CRIUGM), Université de Montréal

John F. Connolly | Department of Linguistics and Languages, McMaster University

Published online: 26 May 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.6.1.06ste

The field of neuroimaging has experienced a tremendous boom due to technological advances in the last ten years and this is also reflected in the electroencephalography / event-related potentials (EEG/ERP) method. This contribution provides an overview of the main EEG/ERP hardware systems and software development currently on the market and the benefits of such technology for the study of language issues. We discuss the “added-value” such technology brings to the research of language and the possibilities of combining various neuroimaging technique with emphasis on the integration of EEG/ERP and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Our contribution ends with a look at what we think may be the methodologies that drive the field forward in the not too distant future.

Keywords: ERP, EEG, EEG hardware, event-related potentials, fMRI, EEG/ERP methodology, EEG software, EEG/ERP technique

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