ERP evidence on the interaction between information structure and emotional salience of words

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 297-310

  Wang, Lin ^a,b,c   Bastiaansen, Marcel ^b,c   Yang, Yufang ^a   Hagoort, Peter ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotional salience; ERP; Information structure; Language

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880682771     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-012-0146-2     Document Type: Article

References (68)

1. Anderson, A. K., & Phelps, E. A. (2001). Lesions of the human amygdala impair enhanced perception of emotionally salient events. Nature, 411(6835), 305-309.
2. Aranda, C., Madrid, E., Tudela, P., & Ruz, M. (2010). Category expectations: A differential modulation of the N170 potential for faces and words. Neuropsychologia, 48(14), 4038-4045.
3. Baayen, R. H., Piepenbrock, R., & van Rijn, H. (1993). The CELEX lexical database (CD-ROM). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.
4. Bayer, M., Sommer, W., & Schacht, A. (2010). Reading emotional words within sentences: The impact of arousal and valence on event-related potentials. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 78(3), 299-307.
5. Bentin, S., Allison, T., Puce, A., Perez, E., & McCarthy, G. (1996). Electrophysiological Studies of Face Perception in Humans. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 8(6), 551-565.
6. Bernat, E., Bunce, S., & Shevrin, H. (2001). Event-related brain potentials differentiate positive and negative mood adjectives during both supraliminal and subliminal visual processing. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 42(1), 11-34.
7. Birch, S., & Rayner, K. (1997). Linguistic focus affects eye movements during reading. Memory & Cognition, 25(5), 653-660.
8. Blau, V. C., Maurer, U., Tottenham, N., & McCandliss, B. D. (2007). The face-specific N170 component is modulated by emotional facial expression. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 3.
9. Bornkessel, I., Schlesewsky, M., & Friederici, A. D. (2003). Contextual Information Modulates Initial Processes of Syntactic Integration: The Role of Inter- Versus Intrasentential Predictions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29(5), 871-882.
10. Citron, F. M. M. (2012). Neural correlates of written emotion word processing: A review of recent electrophysiological and hemodynamic neuroimaging studies. Brain and Language, 122(3), 211-226.
11. Cohen, L., Dehaene, S., Naccache, L., Lehéricy, S., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Hénaff, M.-A., et al. (2000). The visual word form area. Brain, 123(2), 291-307.
12. Corbetta, M., & Shulman, G. L. (2002). Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain. Nature Review Neuroscience, 3(3), 201-215.
13. Cowles, H. W., Kluender, R., Kutas, M., & Polinsky, M. (2007). Violations of information structure: An electrophysiological study of answers to wh-questions. Brain and Language, 102(3), 228-242.
14. Cutler, A., & Fodor, J. A. (1979). Semantic focus and sentence comprehension. Cognition, 7(1), 49-59.
15. Davis, M. H. (1983). Measuring individual differences in empathy: Evidence for a multidimensional approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44(1), 113-126.
16. De Pascalis, V., Arwari, B., D'Antuono, L., & Cacace, I. (2009). Impulsivity and semantic/emotional processing: An examination of the N400 wave. Clinical Neurophysiology, 120(1), 85-92.
17. Dien, J. (2009). The neurocognitive basis of reading single words as seen through early latency ERPs: A model of converging pathways. Biological Psychology, 80(1), 10-22.
18. Federmeier, K., Mai, H., & Kutas, M. (2005). Both sides get the point: Hemispheric sensitivities to sentential constraint. Memory & Cognition, 33(5), 871-886.
19. Fischler, I., & Bradley, M. (2006). Event-related potential studies of language and emotion: Words, phrases, and task effects. Progress in Brain Research, 156, 185-203.
20. Foxe, J., & Simpson, G. (2002). Flow of activation from V1 to frontal cortex in humans: A framework for defining early visual processing. Experimental Brain Research, 142(1), 139-150.
21. Frühholz, S., Jellinghaus, A., & Herrmann, M. (2011). Time course of implicit processing and explicit processing of emotional faces and emotional words. Biological Psychology, 87(2), 265-274.
22. Halliday, M. A. K. (1967). Notes on transitivity and theme in English: Part 2. Journal of Linguistics, 3(02), 199-244.
23. Herbert, C., Kissler, J., Junghöfer, M., Peyk, P., & Rockstroh, B. (2006). Processing of emotional adjectives: Evidence from startle EMG and ERPs. Psychophysiology, 43(2), 197-206.
24. Hinojosa, J. A., Méndez-Bértolo, C., & Pozo, M. A. (2010). Looking at emotional words is not the same as reading emotional words: Behavioral and neural correlates. Psychophysiology, 47(4), 748-757.
25. Hofmann, M., Kuchinke, L., Tamm, S., Võ, M., & Jacobs, A. (2009). Affective processing within 1/10th of a second: High arousal is necessary for early facilitative processing of negative but not positive words. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 9(4), 389-397.
26. Holt, D. J., Lynn, S. K., & Kuperberg, G. R. (2009). Neurophysiological Correlates of Comprehending Emotional Meaning in Context. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(11), 2245-2262.
27. Hruska, C., & Alter, K. (2004). Prosody in dialogues and single sentences: How prosody can influence speech perception. In A. Steube (Ed.), Information structure: Theoretical and empirical aspects (pp. 221-226). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
28. Isenberg, N., Silbersweig, D., Engelien, A., Emmerich, S., Malavade, K., Beattie, B., et al. (1999). Linguistic threat activates the human amygdala. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 96(18), 10456-10459.
29. Ito, K., & Garnsey, S. M. (2004). Brain responses to focus-related prosodic mismatch in Japanese,. Proceedings of Speech Prosody, 609-612.
30. Jackendoff, R. (2002). Foundations of language: Brain, meaning, grammar, evolution. New York: Oxford University Press.
31. Johnson, S. M., Breen, M., Clifton, C. J. R., & Morris, J. (2003). ERP investigation of prosodic and semantic focus. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience, New York City.
32. Kanske, P., & Kotz, S. A. (2007). Concreteness in emotional words: ERP evidence from a hemifield study. Brain Research, 1148, 138-148.
33. Kastner, S., & Ungerleider, L. G. (2000). Mechanisms of visual attention in the human cortex. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 23, 315-341.
34. Kissler, J., Assadollahi, R., & Herbert, C. (2006). Emotional and semantic networks in visual word processing: Insights from ERP studies. Progress in Brain Research, 156, 147-183.
35. Kissler, J., Herbert, C., Winkler, I., & Junghofer, M. (2009). Emotion and attention in visual word processing-An ERP study. Biological Psychology, 80(1), 75-83.
36. Kristensen, L. B., Wang, L., Petersson, K. M., & Hagoort, P. (2012). The interface between language and attention: Prosodic focus marking recruits a general attention network in spoken language comprehension. Cerebral Cortex. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhs164
37. Kutas, M., & Federmeier, K. D. (2011). Thirty Years and Counting: Finding Meaning in the N400 Component of the Event-Related Brain Potential (ERP). Annual Review of Psychology, 62(1), 621-647.
38. Lang, P. J., Bradley, M. M., & Cuthbert, B. N. (1997). Motivated attention: Affect, activation, and action. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
39. León, I., Díaz, J. M., de Vega, M., & Hernández, J. A. (2010). Discourse-Based Emotional Consistency Modulates Early and Middle Components of Event-Related Potentials. Emotion, 10(6), 863-873.
40. Leuthold, H., Filik, R., Murphy, K., & Mackenzie, I. G. (2011). The on-line processing of socio-emotional information in prototypical scenarios: Inferences from brain potentials. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
41. Li, X., Hagoort, P., & Yang, Y. (2008). Event-related potential evidence on the influence of accentuation in spoken discourse comprehension in Chinese. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(5), 906-915.
42. Magne, C., Astesano, C., Lacheret-Dujour, A., Morel, M., Alter, K., & Besson, M. (2005). On-line processing of pop-out words in spoken French dialogues. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17(5), 740-756.
43. Montalan, B., Caharel, S., Personnaz, B., Le Dantec, C., Germain, R., Bernard, C., et al. (2008). Sensitivity of N170 and late positive components to social categorization and emotional valence. Brain Research, 1233, 120-128.
44. Moreno, E. M., & Vázquez, C. (2011). Will the glass be half full or half empty? Brain potentials and emotional expectations. Biological Psychology, 88(1), 131-140.
45. Morris, J. S., Friston, K. J., Büchel, C., Frith, C. D., Young, A. W., Calder, A. J., et al. (1998). A neuromodulatory role for the human amygdala in processing emotional facial expressions. Brain, 121(1), 47-57.
46. Ortigue, S., Michel, C. M., Murray, M. M., Mohr, C., Carbonnel, S., & Landis, T. (2004). Electrical neuroimaging reveals early generator modulation to emotional words. NeuroImage, 21(4), 1242-1251.
47. Penolazzi, B., Hauk, O., & Pulvermüller, F. (2007). Early semantic context integration and lexical access as revealed by event-related brain potentials. Biological Psychology, 74(3), 374-388.
48. Rossion, B., & Jacques, C. (2008). Does physical interstimulus variance account for early electrophysiological face sensitive responses in the human brain? Ten lessons on the N170. NeuroImage, 39(4), 1959-1979.
49. Rotshtein, P., Richardson, M. P., Winston, J. S., Kiebel, S. J., Vuilleumier, P., Eimer, M., et al. (2010). Amygdala damage affects event-related potentials for fearful faces at specific time windows. Human Brain Mapping, 31(7), 1089-1105.
50. Rudrauf, D., David, O., Lachaux, J.-P., Kovach, C. K., Martinerie, J., Renault, B., et al. (2008). Rapid Interactions between the Ventral Visual Stream and Emotion-Related Structures Rely on a Two-Pathway Architecture. The Journal of Neuroscience, 28(11), 2793-2803.
51. Russell, J. A. (1980). A circumplex model of affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39(6), 1161-1178.
52. Schacht, A., & Sommer, W. (2009). Time course and task dependence of emotion effects in word processing. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 9(1), 28-43.
53. Schapkin, S. A., Gusev, A. N., & Kuhl, J. (2000). Categorization of unilaterally presented emotional words: An ERP analysis. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 60(1), 17-28.
54. Schumacher, P. B., & Baumann, S. (2010). Pitch accent type affects the N400 during referential processing. NeuroReport, 21(9), 618-622.
55. Scott, G. G., O'Donnell, P. J., Leuthold, H., & Sereno, S. C. (2009). Early emotion word processing: Evidence from event-related potentials. Biological Psychology, 80(1), 95-104.
56. Spielberger, C. D., Gorsuch, R. L., Lushene, R., Vagg, P. R., & Jacobs, G. A. (1983). Manual for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists' Press.
57. Stolterfoht, B., Friederici, A. D., Alter, K., & Steube, A. (2007). Processing focus structure and implicit prosody during reading: Differential ERP effects. Cognition, 104(3), 565-590.
58. Toepel, U., Pannekamp, A., & Alter, K. (2007). Catching the news: Processing strategies in listening to dialogs as measured by ERPs. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 3(1), 53.
59. Van Berkum, J. J. A. (In press). The Cambridge handbook of psycholinguistics. In M. Spivey & M. Joanisse (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of psycholinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
60. Van Berkum, J. J. A., Koornneef, A. W., Otten, M., & Nieuwland, M. S. (2007). Establishing reference in language comprehension: An electrophysiological perspective. Brain Research, 1146, 158-171.
61. van den Brink, D., Brown, C. M., & Hagoort, P. (2001). Electrophysiological Evidence for Early Contextual Influences during Spoken-Word Recognition: N200 Versus N400 Effects. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13(7), 967-985.
62. van Hooff, J. C., Dietz, K. C., Sharma, D., & Bowman, H. (2008). Neural correlates of intrusion of emotion words in a modified Stroop task. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 67(1), 23-34.
63. Vuilleumier, P. (2005). How brains beware: Neural mechanisms of emotional attention. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(12), 585-594.
64. Vuilleumier, P., Richardson, M. P., Armony, J. L., Driver, J., & Dolan, R. J. (2004). Distant influences of amygdala lesion on visual cortical activation during emotional face processing. Nature Neuroscience, 7(11), 1271-1278.
65. Wang, L., Bastiaansen, M., Yang, Y., & Hagoort, P. (2011). The influence of information structure on the depth of semantic processing: How focus and pitch accent determine the size of the N400 effect. Neuropsychologia, 49(5), 813-820.
66. Wang, L., Bastiaansen, M., Yang, Y., & Hagoort, P. (2012). Information Structure Influences Depth of Syntactic Processing: Event-Related Potential Evidence for the Chomsky Illusion. PLoS ONE, 7(10), e47917.
67. Wang, L., Hagoort, P., & Yang, Y. (2009). Semantic illusion depends on information structure: ERP evidence. Brain Research, 1282, 50-56.
68. Wlotko, E. W., & Federmeier, K. D. (2007). Finding the right word: Hemispheric asymmetries in the use of sentence context information. Neuropsychologia, 45(13), 3001-3014.