Word frequency modulates the processing of emotional words: convergent behavioral and electrophysiological data.
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چکیده
The processing of high frequency (HF) words is speeded as compared to the processing of low frequency (LF) words, which is known as the word frequency effect. This effect has been suggested to occur at either a lexical access or in a decision processing stage. Previous work has shown that word frequency influenced the processing of emotional content at both neural and behavioral levels. However, the results of these studies lead to discrepant findings because some of the variables that have shown to impact the processing of affective information were not always controlled. In order to make a better characterization of frequency effects on emotional word processing, event related potentials (ERPs) and reaction times to HF and LF negative and neutral nouns were measured as participants performed a lexical decision task. Temporal and spatial component analyses were used to detect and quantify, in a reliable way, those components associated with the interaction between word frequency and emotion. LF negative nouns were recognized faster and more accurately than LF neutral nouns whereas no differences were found in the HF word comparison. Also, LF neutral words elicited reduced amplitudes in a late positive component (P450) as compared to LF negative words. These findings might be reflecting a different involvement of attentional mechanisms during the evaluation of lexical information that benefits the processing of LF negative nouns.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Neuroscience letters
دوره 494 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011