On 2016 Jan 23, Vitória Piai commented:

The authors used only the period of presentation of the first word to analyse their data. This word was the same across three conditions, which were presented in three different blocks. Now that I'm looking at their Figure 4, isn't it weird that there are different values for the three different tasks, if these are the exact same words? Or is the fact that they have to perform a different task at each block modulating beta power? But in that case, it would mean that word processing, and the amount of lateralisation of function, will differ as function of whether you have to make a phonological, semantic, or orthographic judgement. So beta power and lateralisation would be a task-specific thing, having little to do to word comprehension as such. Or maybe I am missing something here.

On 2016 Jan 23, Vitória Piai commented:

The authors used only the period of presentation of the first word to analyse their data. This word was the same across three conditions, which were presented in three different blocks. Now that I'm looking at their Figure 4, isn't it weird that there are different values for the three different tasks, if these are the exact same words? Or is the fact that they have to perform a different task at each block modulating beta power? But in that case, it would mean that word processing, and the amount of lateralisation of function, will differ as function of whether you have to make a phonological, semantic, or orthographic judgement. So beta power and lateralisation would be a task-specific thing, having little to do to word comprehension as such. Or maybe I am missing something here.