The early negative bias of social semantics: evidence from behavioral and ERP studies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Compared to nonsocial information, the human brain is more highly sensitive to social information. As a kind of typical social semantic information, the words describing person traits differ from the nonsocial semantic information describing inanimate objects in many ways. It remains to be seen whether the processing of trait words has a valence asymmetric and whether it differs from the processing of nonsocial semantic information in terms of behavioral responses and neural temporal processes.

Method

Taking person and object names as priming stimuli and adjective words only used for describing humans or objects as target stimuli, the present study aimed to investigate the processing characteristics of social and nonsocial semantic information by recording both be

SUBMITTER: Fan X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10464141 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature