Unpleasant words can affect the detection of morphosyntactic errors: An ERP study on individual differences

In recent years, several ERP studies have investigated whether the early computation of agreement is permeable to the emotional content of words. Some studies have reported interactive effects of grammaticality and emotionality in the left anterior negativity (LAN) component, while others have faile...

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Authors: Vieitez Portas, Lucía, Padrón Rodríguez, Isabel, Díaz Lago, Marcos, Dios Flores, Iria de, Fraga Carou, Isabel
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Publication Date:2024
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
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Language:English
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Keyword:Gender agreement
Individual ifferences
LAN/N400
P600
Unpleasant words
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spelling Unpleasant words can affect the detection of morphosyntactic errors: An ERP study on individual differencesVieitez Portas, LucíaPadrón Rodríguez, IsabelDíaz Lago, MarcosDios Flores, Iria deFraga Carou, IsabelGender agreementIndividual ifferencesLAN/N400P600Unpleasant wordsIn recent years, several ERP studies have investigated whether the early computation of agreement is permeable to the emotional content of words. Some studies have reported interactive effects of grammaticality and emotionality in the left anterior negativity (LAN) component, while others have failed to replicate these results. Furthermore, novel findings suggest that grammatical processing can elicit different neural patterns across individuals. In this study, we aim to investigate whether the interaction between grammaticality and emotionality is restricted to participants with a specific neural profile. Sixty-one female native speakers of Spanish performed an agreement judgment task in noun phrases composed of a determiner, a noun, and an unpleasant or neutral adjective that could agree or disagree in gender with the preceding noun. Our results support the existence of two different brain profiles: negative and positive dominance (individuals showing either larger LAN or larger P600 amplitudes in ungrammatical stimuli than in grammatical ones, respectively). Interestingly, the neural pattern of these two groups diverged at different points along the time course. Thus, the negative dominance group showed grammaticality effects as early as 200 ms, along with parallel and autonomous processing of grammaticality and emotionality at the LAN/N400 time window. Instead, for the positive dominance group an early interaction was found at around 200 ms, evidencing a grammaticality effect that emerged only for unpleasant words. Our findings confirm the role of individual differences in the interplay between grammar and emotion at the neural level and call for the inclusion of this perspective in studies on syntactic processing.WileyUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Psicoloxía Social, Básica e MetodoloxíaUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela. Centro de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes da USC (CiTIUS)20242024-07-3120242024-07-31journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10347/39743reponame:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostelainstname:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)InglésengAgencia Estatal de Investigación http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020 PID2019-110583GB-I00 REPRESENTACION Y PROCESAMIENTO DEL GENERO GRAMATICAL: EFECTOS FONOLOGICOS Y LEXICO-SEMANTICOS EN LA CONGRUENCIA Y LA CONCORDANCIA DE GENEROopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2© 2024 The Author(s). Psychophysiology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Psychophysiological Research.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:minerva.usc.gal:10347/397432026-06-15T12:47:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Unpleasant words can affect the detection of morphosyntactic errors: An ERP study on individual differences
title Unpleasant words can affect the detection of morphosyntactic errors: An ERP study on individual differences
spellingShingle Unpleasant words can affect the detection of morphosyntactic errors: An ERP study on individual differences
Vieitez Portas, Lucía
Gender agreement
Individual ifferences
LAN/N400
P600
Unpleasant words
title_short Unpleasant words can affect the detection of morphosyntactic errors: An ERP study on individual differences
title_full Unpleasant words can affect the detection of morphosyntactic errors: An ERP study on individual differences
title_fullStr Unpleasant words can affect the detection of morphosyntactic errors: An ERP study on individual differences
title_full_unstemmed Unpleasant words can affect the detection of morphosyntactic errors: An ERP study on individual differences
title_sort Unpleasant words can affect the detection of morphosyntactic errors: An ERP study on individual differences
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Vieitez Portas, Lucía
Padrón Rodríguez, Isabel
Díaz Lago, Marcos
Dios Flores, Iria de
Fraga Carou, Isabel
author Vieitez Portas, Lucía
author_facet Vieitez Portas, Lucía
Padrón Rodríguez, Isabel
Díaz Lago, Marcos
Dios Flores, Iria de
Fraga Carou, Isabel
author_role author
author2 Padrón Rodríguez, Isabel
Díaz Lago, Marcos
Dios Flores, Iria de
Fraga Carou, Isabel
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Psicoloxía Social, Básica e Metodoloxía
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Centro de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes da USC (CiTIUS)
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Gender agreement
Individual ifferences
LAN/N400
P600
Unpleasant words
topic Gender agreement
Individual ifferences
LAN/N400
P600
Unpleasant words
description In recent years, several ERP studies have investigated whether the early computation of agreement is permeable to the emotional content of words. Some studies have reported interactive effects of grammaticality and emotionality in the left anterior negativity (LAN) component, while others have failed to replicate these results. Furthermore, novel findings suggest that grammatical processing can elicit different neural patterns across individuals. In this study, we aim to investigate whether the interaction between grammaticality and emotionality is restricted to participants with a specific neural profile. Sixty-one female native speakers of Spanish performed an agreement judgment task in noun phrases composed of a determiner, a noun, and an unpleasant or neutral adjective that could agree or disagree in gender with the preceding noun. Our results support the existence of two different brain profiles: negative and positive dominance (individuals showing either larger LAN or larger P600 amplitudes in ungrammatical stimuli than in grammatical ones, respectively). Interestingly, the neural pattern of these two groups diverged at different points along the time course. Thus, the negative dominance group showed grammaticality effects as early as 200 ms, along with parallel and autonomous processing of grammaticality and emotionality at the LAN/N400 time window. Instead, for the positive dominance group an early interaction was found at around 200 ms, evidencing a grammaticality effect that emerged only for unpleasant words. Our findings confirm the role of individual differences in the interplay between grammar and emotion at the neural level and call for the inclusion of this perspective in studies on syntactic processing.
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