Brain responses to negated and affirmative meanings in the auditory modality

ABSTRACT: Negation is frequently used in natural language, yet relatively little is known about its processing. More importantly, what is known regarding the neurophysiological processing of negation is mostly based on results of studies using written stimuli (the word-by-word paradigm). While the results of these studies have suggested processing costs in connection to negation (increased negativities in brain responses), it is difficult to know how this translates into processing of spoken language. We therefore developed an auditory paradigm based on a previous visual study investigating processing of affirmatives, sentential negation (not), and prefixal negation (un-). The findings of processing costs were replicated but differed in the details. Importantly, the pattern of ERP effects suggested

SUBMITTER: Farshchi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9892462 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature