Cognitive neural responses in the semantic comprehension of sound symbolic words and pseudowords.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Sound symbolism is the phenomenon of sounds having non-arbitrary meaning, and it has been demonstrated that pseudowords with sound symbolic elements have similar meaning to lexical words. It is unclear how the impression given by the sound symbolic elements is semantically processed, in contrast to lexical words with definite meanings. In event-related potential (ERP) studies, phonological mapping negativity (PMN) and N400 are often used as measures of phonological and semantic processing, respectively. Therefore, in this study, we analyze PMN and N400 to clarify the differences between existing sound symbolic words (onomatopoeia or ideophones) and pseudowords in terms of semantic and phonological processing.

Methods

An existing sound symbolic word and pseudowor

SUBMITTER: Sasaki K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10603230 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature