An ERP investigation of conditional reasoning with emotional and neutral contents |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Département de Psychologie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada;2. School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, United Kingdom;1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;2. Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California;3. Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island;4. Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts;5. Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas;6. Functional MRI Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan;7. Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan;8. Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York;9. Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science and Radiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York;1. Department of Neurosurgery, Rhode Island Hospital, and Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA;2. Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA;3. Laboratory for Pharmacology, Asahi KASEI Pharma Corporation, Shizuoka, Japan;4. Global Therapeutics Research, Zoetis, Inc, Kalamazoo, MI, USA;1. Department of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University, United States;2. Department of Molecular Imaging and Neuropathology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, United States;3. Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, United States;4. Department of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University, United States;5. Department of Biomedical Sciences and Psychology, Florida State University, United States;6. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, United States;1. Research Institute Brainclinics, Brainclinics Foundation, Nijmegen, the Netherlands;2. Department of Clinical Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands;3. NeuroCare Group Netherlands, Nijmegen, the Netherlands;4. Neuroscan, Dordrecht, the Netherlands;5. Open Mind Neuroscience, Eindhoven, the Netherlands;6. Eindhovens Psychologisch Instituut, Eindhoven, the Netherlands;7. Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;8. Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands;9. Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California;10. Brain Resource Ltd, San Francisco, California;11. Department of Biological & Experimental Psychology, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom;12. Brain Dynamics Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia;13. School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia;14. Total Brain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia;15. Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, North Carolina;p. Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health, Nisonger Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio |
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| Abstract: | In two experiments we investigate conditional reasoning using event-related potentials (ERPs). Our goal was to examine the time course of inference making in two conditional forms, one logically valid (Modus Ponens, MP) and one logically invalid (Affirming the Consequent, AC). We focus particularly on the involvement of semantically-based inferential processes potentially marked by modulations of the N400. We also compared reasoning about emotional and neutral contents with separate sets of stimuli of differing linguistic complexity across the two experiments. Both MP and AC modulated the N400 component, suggesting the involvement of a semantically-based inferential mechanism common across different logical forms, content types, and linguistic features of the problems. Emotion did not have an effect on early components, and did not interact with components related to inference making. There was a main effect of emotion in the 800–1050 ms time window, consistent with an effect on sustained attention. The results suggest that conditional reasoning is not a purely formal process but that it importantly implicates semantic processing, and that the effect of emotion on reasoning does not primarily operate through a modulation of early automatic stages of information processing. |
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| Keywords: | Conditional reasoning Logic Emotion Event-related potentials N400 |
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