Event‐related potential <scp>N</scp>270 delayed and enhanced by the conjunction of relevant and irrelevant perceptual mismatch

Bennett, Matthew; Duke, Philip A.; Fuggetta, Giorgio

doi:10.1111/psyp.12192

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“…The identification of both N270 and N400 components was also within expectations because our participants were required to do more complex conflict processing due to multiple sources of semantic violations (Bennett et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2003). The wide scalp distribution of the violation-evoked N270s in our study was also a finding that is well aligned with the previous literature (Wang et al, 2003).…”

Section: Erp Results: Violationsupporting

confidence: 89%

Schematic Diagrams in Second Language Learning of English Prepositions

Zhao

Huang

Zhou

et al. 2020

Stud Second Lang Acquis

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In the current study of applied cognitive linguistics (CL), schematic diagrams that represent generalizations of physical-spatial experience were applied in a computer-based tutor that trained English prepositions for second language (L2) learners. Behavioral and electrophysiological (ERP) measures were used to examine whether schematic-diagram feedback provided by the tutor had an instructional advantage over the minimally informed correctness feedback. Behavioral results confirmed this prediction and further revealed that the treatment difference was more striking when the participants had a lower L2 proficiency. The ERP results also supported the prediction. Violation uses of prepositions yielded an N270 and an N400. Schematic-diagram feedback motivated significant changes in brain potentials, whereas correctness feedback failed to do so. Overall, our findings suggest that CL-inspired instruction of a relatively short duration led to significant improvements in learners’ behavioral productive performance and in their sensitivity to semantic violation of preposition use during online sentence processing. The study provided strong neurolinguistic evidence for CL-inspired pedagogy in supporting L2 learning.

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Section: Erp Results: Violationsupporting

confidence: 89%

Schematic Diagrams in Second Language Learning of English Prepositions

Zhao

Huang

Zhou

et al. 2020

Stud Second Lang Acquis

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“…Consistent with prior findings, frontal N2 was found to be more negative in the less attractive condition, while LPP was enlarged in response to more attractive faces (Ma et al, ; Werheid, Schacht, & Sommer, ; Zhang et al, ). N2 is well suggested to reflect cognitive conflict (Bennett, Duke, & Fuggetta, ). In this study, male participants always hoped to observe attractive faces and when less attractive ones were presented, a more negative N2 was elicited.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

What do we expect from a beauty? Facial attractiveness of the opposite sex gives rise to discrepancies in males' anticipation and demand

Pei

Meng

2016

Int J Psychol

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Facial attractiveness plays a significant role in social interactions and the effect of beauty premium is frequently observed. Previous studies showed that observing attractive counterparts would alleviate one's sense of unfairness. However, the mechanism underlying this phenomenon remained to be clarified. In this study, male participants were engaged in a modified Dictator game as recipients and their electroencephalograms were recorded. They were convinced that anonymous females who vary in facial attractiveness played as dictators. An outcome anticipation stage was implemented before proposed offers were presented and we focused on the cognitive process of subjective anticipation. A less negative Stimulus-preceding negativity was observed in the attractive face condition, suggesting that subjects paid less anticipatory attention toward proposed offers, and subjective expectation toward fair ones was weakened when beauties played as dictators. Thus, this study provides additional neural evidences for the beauty premium effect and suggests a reasonable explanation for this commonly reported phenomenon.

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“…This result indicates that mismatches in task-relevant and task-irrelevant dimensions are processed automatically and independently. In another study, Bennett et al [2] found that the presentation of a visual distractor enhanced the N270 amplitude both in a perceptual match and mismatch conditions compared to situations with no distractor. They concluded that the distractors may differentially affect the N270 through the generation of task-irrelevant mismatch responses.…”

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confidence: 93%

N270 sensitivity to conflict strength and working memory: A combined ERP and sLORETA study

Scannella

Pariente

Boissezon

et al. 2016

Behavioural Brain Research

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The event-related potential N270 component is known to be an electrophysiological marker of the supramodal conflict processing. However little is know about the factors that may modulate its amplitude. In particular, among all studies that have investigated the N270, little or no control of the conflict strength and of the load in working memory have been done leaving a lack in the understanding of this component. We designed a spatial audiovisual conflict task with simultaneous target and cross-modal distractor to evaluate the N270 sensitivity to the conflict strength (i.e., visual target with auditory distractor or auditory target with visual distractor) and the load in working memory (goal task maintenance with frequent change in the target modality). In a first session, participants had to focus on one modality for the target position to be considered (left-hand or right-hand) while the distractor could be at the same side (compatible) or at opposite side (incompatible). In a second session, we used the same set of stimuli as in the first session with an additional distinct auditory signal that clued the participants to frequently switch between the auditory and the visual targets. We found that (1) reaction times and N270 amplitudes for conflicting situations were larger within the auditory target condition compared to the visual one, (2) the increase in target maintenance effort led to equivalent increase of both reaction times and N270 amplitudes within all conditions and (3) the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex current density was higher for both conflicting and active maintenance of the target situations. These results provide new evidence that the N270 component is an electrophysiological marker of the supramodal conflict processing that is sensitive to the conflict strength and that conflict processing and active maintenance of the task goal are two functions of a common executive attention system.

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Event‐related potential N270 delayed and enhanced by the conjunction of relevant and irrelevant perceptual mismatch

Cited by 29 publications

References 39 publications

Schematic Diagrams in Second Language Learning of English Prepositions

Schematic Diagrams in Second Language Learning of English Prepositions

What do we expect from a beauty? Facial attractiveness of the opposite sex gives rise to discrepancies in males' anticipation and demand

N270 sensitivity to conflict strength and working memory: A combined ERP and sLORETA study

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