In one study of sentence processing,an electroencephalogram (EEG) was used to reveal brain activity while participants heard sentences that were either correct,had a semantic anomaly,or had a statement that contained false information.The evidence from that study suggests that
A) electrical activity is the same,regardless of the content of the sentence.
B) our previous knowledge of the world influences how we parse sentences.
C) errors in syntax are worse than errors of semantics.
D) brain activity is at a uniformly high level from the beginning of a sentence until the end.
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