Affective picture processing is modulated by emotion word type in masked priming paradigm: an event-related potential study |
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Authors: | Chenggang Wu Zhen Yuan |
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Affiliation: | 1. Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Macau, People's Republic of China;2. Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, People's Republic of Chinahttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3837-3841;3. Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, People's Republic of China;4. Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, People's Republic of China |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTAlthough a large body of research demonstrates the role of language in emotion processing (e.g. emotional facial expressions), how emotion-laden words (e.g. poison, reward) and emotion-label words (e.g. fear, satisfaction) differently impact affective picture processing is not clear. Emotion-label words label affective states straightforwardly, whereas emotion-laden words engender emotion via reflection. The current study adopted the masked priming paradigm to examine how Chinese emotion-laden words and emotion-label words distinctively influence affective picture processing. Twenty Chinese speakers decided the valence of the pictures with their cortical responses recorded. Emotion-label words facilitated affective picture evaluation behaviourally. Moreover, pictures that were preceded by emotion-laden words generated larger electrophysiological activation than those preceded by emotion-label words. Combined behavioural and ERP evidence revealed that emotion word type modulated affective picture processing, suggesting different roles of emotion-laden and emotion-label words in how emotion is shaped by language. |
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Keywords: | Emotion word emotion word type emotion-label words emotion-laden words affective picture |
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