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Grand average event-related potential (ERP) waveforms recorded at the 9 chosen electrodes of Chinese pairs.

Grand average event-related potential (ERP) waveforms recorded at the 9 chosen electrodes of Chinese pairs.

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... The lateralized N170 could be attributed to the distinct orthographic information across languages [43]; [44]. As for the N400 component, English exhibits a weaker and/or longer N400 compared to Chinese [33,45]. Chinese-English bilinguals, compared to English monolinguals, demonstrate a reduced N400 response for English word pairs that shared a character in their Chinese translation [46]. ...
... A longer N400 latency suggests a slower rate of semantic processing and limited integration with mental representation [94]. Unexpectedly, this finding is contrary to our initial expectations of the shorter latency for the native language compared to the foreign language, which demonstrated native language superiority [38]; [45,95]. The occurrence of this unexpected result may be related to language inhibition. ...
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