Emotion processing in words: a test of the neural re-use hypothesis using surface and intracranial EEG.

ABSTRACT: This study investigates the spatiotemporal brain dynamics of emotional information processing during reading using a combination of surface and intracranial electroencephalography (EEG). Two different theoretical views were opposed. According to the standard psycholinguistic perspective, emotional responses to words are generated within the reading network itself subsequent to semantic activation. According to the neural re-use perspective, brain regions that are involved in processing emotional information contained in other stimuli (faces, pictures, smells) might be in charge of the processing of emotional information in words as well. We focused on a specific emotion-disgust-which has a clear locus in the brain, the anterior insula. Surface EEG showed differences between disgust and neu

SUBMITTER: Ponz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4014107 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature