Processing Neutral , Emotion and Taboo
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Bilinguals have reported that they have a stronger emotional experience in their native language (L1) than in their second language (L2). Behavioral studies are inconclusive about this question. However, studies that used skin conductance levels as a dependent variable are clearer about this effect: participants elicit a stronger skin conductance response on emotional and taboo words in L1 compared to L2 (e.g. Harris, Ayçiçegi and Gleason, 2003). Moreover, this skin conductance response was higher for taboo words than for negative words, indicating that taboo words are a special type of emotional words. This study tries to investigate the difference in emotional experience between L1 and L2 with a more directive and online measurement: ERP. The stimuli that are used are negative and neutral words (experiment 1) and taboo and neutral words (experiment 2). The dependent measures are the P300 and the long positive potential (LPP). Our hypothesis is that negative and taboo words elicit a P300. This P300 will be larger in L1 than in L2.
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