Davidson, D.
Electrophysiology has the potential to reveal learning-related changes in brain activity during adult second language acquisition. This is significant not only because it can reveal the fast-changing response to an individual word within a sentence, but also other evoked activity at intermediate time scales during the same trial, or over a series of trials during a learning task. In this talk, I will review work that has attempted to exploit this advantage to study how electrophysiological activity changes over time during morphosyntactic learning in Dutch learners of German. The main observation of this work is that short-term changes can be seen in both event-related potential (ERP) components as well as in event-related changes in spectral power. It appears that some of these short-term changes are diagnostic of learning mechanisms.