User talk:Mcs14

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N400
Regarding the issue of listing ELAN on the "See also" section for N400, I am aware of the research regarding the timing of the ELAN. But the jury is still out on what the ELAN actually "is", and Wikipedia's verifiability and no original research policies dictate that in our articles we can't do much more than parrot what is in the literature, rather than adding our own commentary on unfolding research. If it is definitely proven sometime in the future that the ELAN is not a linguistic response, then we might be able to rethink how we categorize it here, but until then all we can do is mention the relevant studies in the ELAN article, without making any judgments about what it is or is not.

And, for that matter, ERP components can be called "language-relevant" without having to completely triggered by language stimuli&mdash;domain specificity is not required. The N400 itself can be triggered by nonlinguistic things such as smells; it just happens to be useful in language research, like the ELAN. The P300, too, is a general response to oddball stimuli and is not specifically related to language per se. r ʨ anaɢ (talk) 05:46, 10 May 2010 (UTC)