a visual word or vice versa, Holcomb and Anderson (1993) argued for an amodal semantic system tapped by modality specific processes. Importantly, however, the modality general aspects of the N400 effects made it easier to investigate language representations and process both independent of and as a function of input type, and helped validate the non-ecological RSVP procedure used for reading studies (to avoid contamination of visual ERP with eye movements).
