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Emotions in word and face processing: early and late cortical responses.
Brain Cogn. 2009 Apr; 69(3):538-50.BC

Abstract

Recent research suggests that emotion effects in word processing resemble those in other stimulus domains such as pictures or faces. The present study aims to provide more direct evidence for this notion by comparing emotion effects in word and face processing in a within-subject design. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded as participants made decisions on the lexicality of emotionally positive, negative, and neutral German verbs or pseudowords, and on the integrity of intact happy, angry, and neutral faces or slightly distorted faces. Relative to neutral and negative stimuli both positive verbs and happy faces elicited posterior ERP negativities that were indistinguishable in scalp distribution and resembled the early posterior negativities reported by others. Importantly, these ERP modulations appeared at very different latencies. Therefore, it appears that similar brain systems reflect the decoding of both biological and symbolic emotional signals of positive valence, differing mainly in the speed of meaning access, which is more direct and faster for facial expressions than for words.

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Schacht A
Department of Psychology, Humboldt-University at Berlin, Rudower Chaussee 18, D-12489 Berlin, Germany. schachta@hu-berlin.de
Sommer W
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MeSH

Analysis of VarianceBrainElectroencephalographyEmotionsEvoked PotentialsFaceFacial ExpressionFemaleHumansMalePattern Recognition, VisualPsycholinguisticsReaction TimeReadingTask Performance and AnalysisVocabularyYoung Adult

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Language

eng

PubMed ID

19097677

Citation

Schacht, Annekathrin, and Werner Sommer. "Emotions in Word and Face Processing: Early and Late Cortical Responses." Brain and Cognition, vol. 69, no. 3, 2009, pp. 538-50.
Schacht A, Sommer W. Emotions in word and face processing: early and late cortical responses. Brain Cogn. 2009;69(3):538-50.
Schacht, A., & Sommer, W. (2009). Emotions in word and face processing: early and late cortical responses. Brain and Cognition, 69(3), 538-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2008.11.005
Schacht A, Sommer W. Emotions in Word and Face Processing: Early and Late Cortical Responses. Brain Cogn. 2009;69(3):538-50. PubMed PMID: 19097677.
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