ERP evidence for emotion-specific congruency effects between sentences and new words with disgust and sadness connotations.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The present study investigated how new words with acquired connotations of disgust and sadness, both negatively valenced but distinctive emotions, modulate the brain dynamics in the context of emotional sentences.

Methods

Participants completed a learning session in which pseudowords were repeatedly paired with faces expressing disgust and sadness. An event-related potential (ERP) session followed the next day, in which participants received the learned pseudowords (herein, new words) combined with sentences and were asked to make emotional congruency judgment.

Results

Sad new words elicited larger negative waveform than disgusting new words in the 146-228 ms time window, and emotionally congruent trials showed larger positive waveform than emotionally in

SUBMITTER: Gu B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10213552 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature