Processing of emotional connotations in Chinese monomorphic and compound words reflected by the early posterior negativity.

ABSTRACT: Writing stands as one of humanity's most profound inventions, facilitating the efficient sharing and transmission of vast amounts of information. Similar to images and facial expressions, visual (written) words possess the ability to evoke emotional connotations. Understanding how the brain perceives these emotional nuances encoded in highly symbolic visual words is a key focus of the emerging field of "affective neurolinguistics." At the core of this inquiry lies the examination of the early posterior negativity (EPN), an event-related potentials (ERPs) component peaking around 300 ms after stimulus onset in the occipitotemporal scalp region. EPN has consistently emerged in response to emotional stimuli, encompassing pictures, faces, and visual words. However, prior research has notably l

SUBMITTER: Zhang K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11342526 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature