Effects of context and individual differences on the processing of taboo words

Christianson, Kiel; Zhou, Peiyun; Palmer, Cassie; Raizen, Adina

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.05.012

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“…Switching from the non-dominant English to the dominant Spanish representation in these relatively dominant Spanish speakers appears to engage the emotional processing resources supported by the amygdala. (Note that early effects of valence on lexical processing have also been reported for monolinguals [ 70 – 72 ].) Interestingly, the lateralized switch effect in hippocampus and the L1-to-L2 amygdala effects are compatible with those reported by Hernandez [ 34 ].…”

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Single neuron recordings of bilinguals performing in a continuous recognition memory task

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We report the results of a bilingual continuous recognition memory task during which single- and multi-neuron activity was recorded in human subjects with intracranial microwire implants. Subjects (n = 5) were right-handed Spanish-English bilinguals who were undergoing evaluation prior to surgery for severe epilepsy. Subjects were presented with Spanish and English words and the task was to determine whether any given word had been seen earlier in the testing session, irrespective of the language in which it had appeared. Recordings in the left and right hippocampus revealed notable laterality, whereby both Spanish and English items that had been seen previously in the other language (switch trials) triggered increased neural firing in the left hippocampus. Items that had been seen previously in the same language (repeat trials) triggered increased neural firings in the right hippocampus. These results are consistent with theories that propose roles of both the left- and right-hemisphere in real-time linguistic processing. Importantly, this experiment presents the first instance of intracranial recordings in bilinguals performing a task with switching demands.

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“…While the previous studies were conducted in a formal context (a university lab, at the presence of a senior experimenter), the current experiments were run in an informal one (online at participants' home, with no contact with the experimenter). As the effects of taboo connotation are highly sensitive to the context (e.g., Christianson et al, 2017;MacKay et al, 2004MacKay et al, , 2015, this may have reduced the impact of taboo connotation, particularly for pseudowords, in which the access to the taboo connotation is mediated by the activation of their base-word. In addition, the effect of taboo interference-but not the Simon and the Semantic Stroop effect-was subject to habituation, being maximal at the beginning of the experiment and disappearing later on.…”

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Prepotent task-irrelevant semantic information is dampened by domain-specific control mechanisms during visual word recognition

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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We investigated whether semantic interference occurring during visual word recognition is resolved using domain-general control mechanism or using more specific mechanisms related to semantic processing. We asked participants to perform a lexical decision task with taboo stimuli, which induce semantic interference, as well as well as a semantic Stroop task and a Simon task, intended as benchmarks of linguistic-semantic and non-linguistic interference, respectively. Using a correlational approach, we investigated potential similarities between effects produced in the three tasks, both at the level of overall means and as a function of response speed (delta-plot analysis). Correlations selectively surfaced between the lexical decision and the semantic Stroop task. These findings suggest that, during visual word recognition, semantic interference is controlled by semantic-specific mechanisms, which intervene to face prepotent but task-irrelevant semantic information interfering with the accomplishment of the task's goal.

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“…eye trackers) has been used for expressional anomie research. Christianson et al (2017) examined individual differences in the extent to which readers were offended by taboo words via eye-tracking experiments, and introduced a new theory for taboo word processing. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence technologies are applied to detect expressional anomie.…”

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Detecting online expressional anomie and its evolutions in social media

Zhou

Jing

2019

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Purpose Expressional anomie (e.g. obscene words) can hinder communications and even obstruct improvements of national literacy. Meanwhile, the borderless and rapid transmission of the internet has exacerbated the influences. Hence, the purpose of this paper is detecting online anomic expression automatically and analyzing dynamic evolution processes of expressional anomie, so as to reveal multidimensional status of expressional anomie. Design/methodology/approach This paper conducted expressional anomie analysis via fine-grained microblog mining. Specifically, anomic microblogs and their anomic types were identified via a supervised classification method. Then, the evolutions of expressional anomie were analyzed, and impacts of users’ characteristics on the evolution process were mined. Finally, expressional anomie characteristics and evolution trends were obtained. Findings Empirical results on microblogs indicate that more effective and diversified measures need to be used to address the current large-scale anomie in expression. Moreover, measures should be tailored to individuals and local conditions. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, it is the first research to mine evolutions of expressional anomie automatically in social media. It may discover more continuous and universal rules of expressional anomie, so as to optimize the online expression environment.

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Effects of context and individual differences on the processing of taboo words

Cited by 16 publications

References 38 publications

Single neuron recordings of bilinguals performing in a continuous recognition memory task

Single neuron recordings of bilinguals performing in a continuous recognition memory task

Prepotent task-irrelevant semantic information is dampened by domain-specific control mechanisms during visual word recognition

Detecting online expressional anomie and its evolutions in social media

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