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Subliminal Emotional Words Impact Syntactic Processing: Evidence from Performance and Event-Related Brain Potentials

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, April 2017
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Title
Subliminal Emotional Words Impact Syntactic Processing: Evidence from Performance and Event-Related Brain Potentials
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, April 2017
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00192
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Laura Jiménez-Ortega, Javier Espuny, Pilar Herreros de Tejada, Carolina Vargas-Rivero, Manuel Martín-Loeches

Abstract

Recent studies demonstrate that syntactic processing can be affected by emotional information and that subliminal emotional information can also affect cognitive processes. In this study, we explore whether unconscious emotional information may also impact syntactic processing. In an Event-Related brain Potential (ERP) study, positive, neutral and negative subliminal adjectives were inserted within neutral sentences, just before the presentation of the supraliminal adjective. They could either be correct (50%) or contain a morphosyntactic violation (number or gender disagreements). Larger error rates were observed for incorrect sentences than for correct ones, in contrast to most studies using supraliminal information. Strikingly, emotional adjectives affected the conscious syntactic processing of sentences containing morphosyntactic anomalies. The neutral condition elicited left anterior negativity (LAN) followed by a P600 component. However, a lack of anterior negativity and an early P600 onset for the negative condition were found, probably as a result of the negative subliminal correct adjective capturing early syntactic resources. Positive masked adjectives in turn prompted an N400 component in response to morphosyntactic violations, probably reflecting the induction of a heuristic processing mode involving access to lexico-semantic information to solve agreement anomalies. Our results add to recent evidence on the impact of emotional information on syntactic processing, while showing that this can occur even when the reader is unaware of the emotional stimuli.

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Country Count As %
Spain 1 2%
Unknown 46 98%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 17%
Student > Master 8 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 11%
Student > Bachelor 3 6%
Professor 3 6%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 15 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 16 34%
Neuroscience 4 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 6%
Linguistics 2 4%
Social Sciences 1 2%
Other 3 6%
Unknown 18 38%
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