RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Electrophysiology Reveals the Neural Dynamics of Naturalistic Auditory Language Processing: Event-Related Potentials Reflect Continuous Model Updates JF eneuro JO eNeuro FD Society for Neuroscience SP ENEURO.0311-16.2017 DO 10.1523/ENEURO.0311-16.2017 VO 4 IS 6 A1 Phillip M. Alday A1 Matthias Schlesewsky A1 Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky YR 2017 UL http://www.eneuro.org/content/4/6/ENEURO.0311-16.2017.abstract AB The recent trend away from ANOVA-based analyses places experimental investigations into the neurobiology of cognition in more naturalistic and ecologically valid designs within reach. Using mixed-effects models for epoch-based regression, we demonstrate the feasibility of examining event-related potentials (ERPs), and in particular the N400, to study the neural dynamics of human auditory language processing in a naturalistic setting. Despite the large variability between trials during naturalistic stimulation, we replicated previous findings from the literature: the effects of frequency, animacy, and word order and find previously unexplored interaction effects. This suggests a new perspective on ERPs, namely, as a continuous modulation reflecting continuous stimulation instead of a series of discrete and essentially sequential processes locked to discrete events.