Emotional noun processing: An ERP study with rapid serial visual presentation

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Reading is an important part of our daily life, and rapid responses to emotional words have received a great deal of research interest. Our study employed rapid serial visual presentation to detect the time course of emotional noun processing using event-related potentials. We performed a dual-task experiment, where subjects were required to judge whether a given number was odd or even, and the category into which each emotional noun fit. In terms of P1, we found that there was no negativity bias for emotional nouns. However, emotional nouns elicited larger amplitudes in the N170 component in the left hemisphere than did neutral nouns. This finding indicated that in later processing stages, emotional words can be discriminated from neutral words. Furthermore, positive, negative, and neutral words were different from each other in the late positive complex, indicating that in the third stage, even different emotions can be discerned. Thus, our results indicate that in a threestage model the latter two stages are more stable and universal.

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Yi, S., He, W., Zhan, L., Qi, Z., Zhu, C., Luo, W., & Li, H. (2015). Emotional noun processing: An ERP study with rapid serial visual presentation. PLoS ONE, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118924

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