Neural and behavioural correlates of gender agreement processing in emotional words

According to the Syntactic Encapsulation Hypothesis, syntactic processing occurs in discrete and encapsulated stages, whereby grammatical information is always analysed before any other linguistic input. Furthermore, this process is posited to be domain-specific, so syntactic and extra-syntactic inf...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Vieitez Portas, Lucía
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
Repositorio:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:minerva.usc.gal:10347/40406
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10347/40406
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:gender agreement
emotionality
individual differences
LAN/N400
P600
610601 Actividad cerebral
610604 Análisis experimental de la conducta
610603 Emoción
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Sumario:According to the Syntactic Encapsulation Hypothesis, syntactic processing occurs in discrete and encapsulated stages, whereby grammatical information is always analysed before any other linguistic input. Furthermore, this process is posited to be domain-specific, so syntactic and extra-syntactic information are not subject to interaction until later stages of linguistic processing. Following this hypothesis, a syntactic operation such as grammatical gender coindexations in agreement should not be affected by the emotional connotation of words, a lexico-semantic variable. However, the available evidence is contradictory. Some studies have found emotional words to affect agreement processing, while others have consistently found no evidence for such interactive effects.