Pronouns in the brain

This chapter draws on the field of psycholinguistics to give an overview of studies that have focused on how we can observe pronoun processing within the brain. Detailing experimental procedures, this chapter explains how researchers have sought to understand pronoun processing by testing how the brain responds to pronoun mismatches. It explains how ERPs (event-related potentials) are measured and documents what the P600 and N400 effects can tell us about how humans process the information that is encoded in pronoun resolution.