Emotional language production: Time course, behavioral and electrophysiological correlates

Rohr, Lana; Rahman, Rasha Abdel

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.05.025

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“…The early LPP temporally and spatially overlapped with the P300 component, which has been linked to an increase in attention to task-relevant stimuli [39]. Meanwhile, LPP amplitudes have been reported to be positively correlated with self-reported emotion [72,73]. Therefore, the decreased LPP for reappraisal in the HEC-Success, HEC-Failure, and MCI-Failure groups may be a marker of reduction in attentional resources and emotional response to Rea stimuli when reinterpretations were specified before the stimuli.…”

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Electrophysiological Studies of Cognitive Reappraisal Success and Failure in aMCI

Xiao

Liu

et al. 2021

Brain Sciences

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Background: Although successful reappraisal relies on cognitive resources, how cognitive impairment affects brain processes related to cognitive reappraisal is not yet clear. Methods: Forty-four amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) subjects and 72 healthy elderly controls (HECs) were divided into the MCI-Failure (n = 23), MCI-Success (n = 21), HEC-Failure (n = 26), and HEC-Success (n = 46) groups according to changes in self-reported affect using reappraisal. All participants viewed 30 negative and 30 neutral images preceded by straightforward descriptions of these images and 30 negative images preceded by more neutral descriptions. Results: Reappraisal failure was found to be more common in people with MCI. Reappraisal failure is associated with altered neurophysiological indices of negative-reappraisal stimuli processing that are reflected in smaller theta responsivity to negative-reappraisal stimuli between 350–550 ms. The MCI-Success group showed enhanced LPP for negative-reappraisal stimuli from 1200 to 3500 ms, reflecting compensatory effort to complete the reappraisal task, while subjects in other groups showed reduced LPP for negative-reappraisal stimuli from 550 to 1200 ms. Conclusions: These findings deepen our understanding of how cognitive decline impacts reappraisal and informs early diagnosis and interventions for MCI.

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Electrophysiological Studies of Cognitive Reappraisal Success and Failure in aMCI

Xiao

Liu

et al. 2021

Brain Sciences

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“…Recent advancements in EEG signal processing have allowed to isolate and correct for articulation-related artifacts, making it possible to test overt language production (Ouyang et al, 2016;Porcaro et al, 2015;Vos et al, 2010). For example, Rohr and Rahman (2018) asked German (L1) -English (L2) bilinguals to translate (aloud) visually presented positive, negative, or neutral words from L2 to L1 or to read them aloud. LPP amplitudes increased for negative relative to neutral words in both the production and reading tasks.…”

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“…The present study thus investigated the brain dynamics of emotional word production in Polish (L1) -English (L2) bilinguals. Speech production was elicited in an overt translation task and a control shadowing task (i.e., reading words aloud; Christofffels & Groot, 2004;Christoffels et al, 2013;Jost et al, 2018;Rohr & Rahman, 2018). Unlike Rohr and Rahman (2018), we implemented a bi-directional translation task (i.e., L1-L2 and L2-L1) to evaluate how emotional word content affects both L1 and L2 word production (Jost et al, 2018).…”

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“…Speech production was elicited in an overt translation task and a control shadowing task (i.e., reading words aloud; Christofffels & Groot, 2004;Christoffels et al, 2013;Jost et al, 2018;Rohr & Rahman, 2018). Unlike Rohr and Rahman (2018), we implemented a bi-directional translation task (i.e., L1-L2 and L2-L1) to evaluate how emotional word content affects both L1 and L2 word production (Jost et al, 2018). Extending previous EEG, pupillometry, and electrodermal studies of emotional word comprehension (Baumeister et al, 2017;Jankowiak & Korpal, 2018;Jończyk et al, 2019;Rohr & Rahman, 2018;Toivo & Scheepers, 2019;Wu & Thierry, 2012), we also analysed potential contextual effects of emotional cues (Rohr & Rahman, 2015;Schindler & Kissler, 2016;Schindler et al, 2019).…”

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Brain potentials reveal reduced sensitivity to negative content during second language production

Jończyk,

Naranowicz,

Bel-Bahar

et al. 2024

Bilingualism

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Prior research suggests that bilinguals show reduced sensitivity to negative content when operating in the second language (L2). The available evidence, however, is limited to language comprehension. We tested the production of emotional words in Polish (L1)–English (L2) bilinguals in two EEG studies that manipulated emotional cueing. In Experiment 1 (neutral context), white or black circles indicated whether participants should read aloud (shadow) or translate a subsequently presented word. N400 amplitudes were selectively reduced for negative L2 words regardless of the task. In Experiment 2 (emotional context), we used black or white emojis, either sad or neutral, as cues. The previous interaction between word valence and language of operation vanished, but late positive potential amplitudes elicited by negative words were larger for translation from L2 to L1 (i.e., production in Polish) than L1 to L2. These results validate and extend to production previous findings of attenuated emotional response in L2 comprehension.

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“…Thus, during adjective processing, in Study 1 no expectations about the sender could be formed, while sender-assignment and thus the social context was known beforehand in Study 2 and contextual social relevance graded, with anticipation of expert feedback arguably being more relevant than anticipation of layperson feedback and computer feedback least relevant. Please note, that the two studies were not designed a priori to enable statistical between-study comparisons, similar to other studies on contextual socio-emotional influences on language (Rohr and Abdel Rahman, 2018a). However, based on previous research, for each individual study clear hypotheses can be stated.…”

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Emotion in Context: How Sender Predictability and Identity Affect Processing of Words as Imminent Personality Feedback

2019

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Recent findings suggest that communicative context affects the timing and magnitude of emotion effects in word processing. In particular, social attributions seem to be one important source of plasticity for the processing of affectively charged language. Here, we investigate the timing and magnitude of ERP responses toward positive, neutral, and negative trait adjectives during the anticipation of putative socio-evaluative feedback from different senders (human and computer) varying in predictability. In the first experiment, during word presentation participants could not anticipate whether a human or a randomly acting computer sender was about to give feedback. Here, a main effect of emotion was observed only on the late positive potential (LPP), showing larger amplitudes for positive compared to neutral adjectives. In the second study the same stimuli and set-up were used, but a block-wise presentation was realized, resulting in fixed and fully predictable sender identity. Feedback was supposedly given by an expert (psychotherapist), a layperson (unknown human), and again by a randomly acting computer. Main effects of emotion started with an increased P1 for negative adjectives, followed by effects at the N1 and early posterior negativity (EPN), showing both largest amplitudes for positive words, as well as for the LPP, where positive and negative words elicited larger amplitudes than neutral words. An interaction revealed that emotional LPP modulations occurred only for a human sender. Finally, regardless of content, anticipating human feedback led to larger P1 and P3 components, being highest for the putative expert. These findings demonstrate the malleability of emotional language processing by social contexts. When clear predictions can be made, our brains rapidly differentiate between emotional and neutral information, as well as between different senders. Attributed human presence affects emotional language processing already during feedback anticipation, in line with a selective gating of attentional resources via anticipatory social significance attributions. By contrast, emotion effects occur much later, when crucial social context information is still missing. These findings demonstrate the context-dependence of emotion effects in word processing and are particularly relevant since virtual communication with unknown senders, whose identity is inferred rather than perceived, has become reality for millions of people.

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Emotional language production: Time course, behavioral and electrophysiological correlates

Cited by 7 publications

References 84 publications

Electrophysiological Studies of Cognitive Reappraisal Success and Failure in aMCI

Electrophysiological Studies of Cognitive Reappraisal Success and Failure in aMCI

Brain potentials reveal reduced sensitivity to negative content during second language production

Emotion in Context: How Sender Predictability and Identity Affect Processing of Words as Imminent Personality Feedback

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