The electrophysiological basis of mass and count nouns processing

The present study addresses the question of whether count and mass nouns are differentially processed in the brain at the lexical level. Two different investigations have been performed. The first investigation consisted in having ERPs recorded during a lexical decision task contrasting mass and count nouns. The second investigation, preliminary to a second ERP study, collected behavioral data introducing the important dimension of concreteness that was not kept into account in the first study