Anaphora resolution is to establish the antecedent-pronoun dependency, a
core issue in natural language processing. English reflexives are strictly
bound in its local domain according to Binding Principle A; Mandarin
reflexive *ziji* does not follow the principle strictly. In the past 20
years, many ERP studies were conducted to figure out the neural activities
of anaphora resolution, yet few of them were in Chinese. Given the scarcity
of and the controversies among the existing literature, the current study
aimed to examine how binding distance and animacy affect Mandarin reflexive
*ziji *using ERPs.