The N400/FN400 and Lateralized Readiness Potential Neural Correlates of Valence and Origin of Words' Affective Connotations in Ambiguous Task Processing.

ABSTRACT: Recent behavioral studies revealed an interesting phenomenon concerning the influence of affect on the interpretation of ambiguous stimuli. In a paradigm, where the participants' task was to read a word, remember its meaning for a while, and then choose one of two pictorial-alphabet-like graphical signs best representing the word sense, we observed that the decisions involving trials with reflective-originated verbal stimuli were performed significantly longer than decisions concerning other stimuli (i.e., automatic-originated). The origin of an affective reaction is a dimension which allows speaking of an affect as automatic (you feel it in your guts) or reflective (you feel it comes from your mind). The automatic affective reaction represents the immediate and inescapable as opposed to t

SUBMITTER: Imbir KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6218570 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature