The effects of emotionality on syntactic processing: Neural and behavioural evidence
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[1] Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela, España
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- Localización: Emotion and identity in second language learning / Ana Blanco Canales (ed. lit.), Susana Martín Leralta (ed. lit.), 2023, ISBN 978-1-80079-649-2, págs. 15-48
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Interest in the interplay between language and emotion has increased in recent years. In Spanish, a number of studies has been carried out in which the autonomy of grammar vis- a- vis lexical- semantic information, including emotional content, has been put to the test (largely in reference to Fodoŕs (1983) classic theory of informational encapsulation). In a series of experiments conducted in the Cognitive Processes and Behavior Research Group's lab (https:// www.usc.gal/ pcc/ web/ index _ en.html) in which we used am-biguous relative clauses and gender agreement errors, we sought to better understand if and when the emotional connotation of words may impact morphosyntactic processing. Emotion was examined from the bidimensional perspective that ascribes to every lexical item a position in a scale defined in reference to two variables: pleasantness (vs unpleasantness) and arousal (or (relative) lack of it). We used classic behavioural tasks, such as the sentence completion task, the self- paced reading task and the grammatical judgement task, as well as the event- related potentials technique. Our findings reveal differential effects of emotionality across tasks and studies as a function of affective valence and arousal. Our studies also show that individual differences can be crucial.
