Evidence for dynamic attentional bias toward positive emotion-laden words: A behavioral and electrophysiological study.

ABSTRACT: There has been no consensus on the neural dissociation between emotion-label and emotion-laden words, which remains one of the major concerns in affective neurolinguistics. The current study adopted dot-probe tasks to investigate the valence effect on attentional bias toward Chinese emotion-label and emotion-laden words. Behavioral data showed that emotional word type and valence interacted in attentional bias scores with an attentional bias toward positive emotion-laden words rather than positive emotion-label words and that this bias was derived from the disengagement difficulty in positive emotion-laden words. In addition, an attentional bias toward negative emotion-label words relative to positive emotion-label words was observed. The event-related potential (ERP) data demonstrated an

SUBMITTER: Liu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9426460 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature