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222. The dynamic influence of emotional words on sentence comprehension: An ERP study.

Author

Ding, Jinfeng, Wang, Lin, and Yang, Yufang

Subjects
EMOTIVE (Linguistics), LANGUAGE research, PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, SEMANTICS research, EVOKED potentials (Electrophysiology)
Abstract

In the present study, we explored the influence of emotional words on the semantic integration of their following neutral nouns during sentence comprehension. We manipulated the emotionality of verbs and the semantic congruity of their following (neutral) object nouns in sentences. Event-related potentials were recorded to the verbs, which were either negative or neutral, and to the object nouns, which were either semantically congruent or incongruent relative to the preceding contexts. We found an N400 and a P600 effect in response to the semantic congruity of the nouns when they followed the neutral verbs. However, the P600 (but not the N400) semantic congruity effect may have been attenuated when the nouns followed the negative verbs. Meanwhile, the negative verbs elicited a larger P2 and N400 than did the neutral verbs. The results indicate that the attention captured by emotional words impaired reanalysis of the following incongruent information, demonstrating a dynamic influence of emotional words on the semantic processing of following information during sentence comprehension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2016
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250. The processing difference between person names and common nouns in sentence contexts: an ERP study.

Author

Wang, Lin, Verdonschot, Rinus, and Yang, Yufang

Subjects
NOUNS, SENTENCES (Grammar), LINGUISTIC context, LEXICON, SEMANTICS, LONG-term memory, EVOKED potentials (Electrophysiology)
Abstract

Person names and common nouns differ in how they are stored in the mental lexicon. Using event-related potentials, this study compared the integration of names and nouns into sentence contexts. Both person names and common nouns were highly related in meaning and either congruent or incongruent within the previous contexts. Name incongruence elicited an N400 effect, suggesting that people were able to rapidly retrieve the semantic meaning of names from long-term memory even when this process was mediated by person identification. Conversely, participants showed a 'good enough' processing of the nouns due to their low specificity level and, thus, rich semantic associations, leading to a P600 effect. These distinctive ERP effects provide clear evidence for the distinctive semantic representations of these word categories by showing that the activation of a name's meaning is mediated by a single connection between identity-specific information and person identity, whereas multiple connections exist between nouns and their meanings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2016
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