A participant reads "Lena clapped the kitten Vick." The researcher should expect to see a(n):
A) N400.
B) P600.
C) R800.
D) N400 and a P600.

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The sentence "Lena clapped the kitten Vick" is semantically anomalous (unexpected, making little sense) and syntactically correct but odd, likely to elicit an N400 response due to the semantic anomaly and a P600 response due to the syntactic peculiarity or processing difficulty, hence both N400 and P600 are expected.

A Participant Reads "Lena Clapped the Kitten Vick