How the brain processes emotional meaning of indirect reply: evidence from EEG

IF 1.8 3区医学 Q2 AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY

Language Cognition and Neuroscience Pub Date : 2023-07-16 DOI:10.1080/23273798.2023.2232055

Xinyue Guo, Xiaoqing Li, Yufang Yang

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Abstract

ABSTRACT People often express their message and emotions through indirect utterances. How the intended meaning of indirect utterances is comprehended remains not completely clear. We investigated how the emotional meaning of indirect replies is processed in the brain. Participants were required to comprehend dialogues. Three types of replies were constructed: direct reply, informative indirect reply and negative indirect reply. Our results showed that both informative and negative indirect replies were understood with lower accuracy and longer behavioural reaction times than direct replies. Moreover, informative indirect replies elicited a larger N400 than direct replies, whereas negative indirect replies (compared to informative indirect replies as well as direct replies) elicited enhanced ERP responses only over the late P600 component. These findings suggest that the cognitive processes involved in and the time course of the comprehension of indirect replies change dynamically as a function of the emotional aspects of the intended meaning.

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Language Cognition and Neuroscience AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY-BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

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4.50

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13.00%

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期刊介绍： Language, Cognition and Neuroscience (formerly titled Language and Cognitive Processes) publishes high-quality papers taking an interdisciplinary approach to the study of brain and language, and promotes studies that integrate cognitive theoretical accounts of language and its neural bases. We publish both high quality, theoretically-motivated cognitive behavioural studies of language function, and papers which integrate cognitive theoretical accounts of language with its neurobiological foundations. The study of language function from a cognitive neuroscience perspective has attracted intensive research interest over the last 20 years, and the development of neuroscience methodologies has significantly broadened the empirical scope of all language research. Both hemodynamic imaging and electrophysiological approaches provide new perspectives on the representation and processing of language, and place important constraints on the development of theoretical accounts of language function and its neurobiological context.