“…Due to its high temporal or spatial resolution, both ERP and fMRI techniques have been used to investigate the neural mechanisms of emotional word processing in monolinguals (see Citron, 2012 for a review). So far, two published ERP studies (Conrad et al, 2011;Opitz & Degner, 2012) and one fMRI study (Hsu et al, 2015) have examined bilingual emotional word processing. The present study, for the first time, used both ERPs and fMRIalong with behavioral measures to investigate the time course and the underlying neural mechanism of emotional word processing in L1 and L2.…”