... fMRI 357An Event- Related fMRI Study of Syntactic andSemantic ViolationsAaron J. Newman,1,4Roumyana Pancheva,2,3Kaori Ozawa,2Helen J. Neville,1and Michael T. Ullman2,4We used event- related ... noninvasive method is event- related brain potentials (ERPs).These are recordings of brain activity made from electrodes placed on thescalp and time-locked to specific events (e.g., stimuli). ... & D’Esposito, 1997; Menon & Kim, 1999). In this method, hemo- dynamic responses to individual stimuli or other cognitive “events” can bemeasured, in contrast to the more traditional method...