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            Mondays: ERP effects of emotion on person agreement

Poch, Claudia; Diéguez-Risco, Teresa; Martínez-García, Natalia; Ferré, Pilar; Hinojosa, José Antonio

doi:10.1080/23273798.2022.2115085

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“…Similarly, previous studies investigating emotional effects on syntactic processing that employed neutral sentences containing syntactic anomalies in an emotional word observed LAN but not P600 modulations ( Martín-Loeches et al 2012 , Padrón et al. 2020 , Poch et al. 2023 ), even if emotional words are masked and processed without awareness ( Jiménez-Ortega et al.…”

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The bigger your pupils, the better my comprehension: an ERP study of how pupil size and gaze of the speaker affect syntactic processing

Jiménez-Ortega,

Casado-Palacios,

Rubianes

et al. 2024

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Gaze direction and pupil dilation play a critical role in communication and social interaction due to their ability to redirect and capture our attention and relevance for emotional information. The present study aimed to explore whether the pupil size and the gaze direction of the speaker affect language comprehension. Participants listened to sentences that could be correct or contain a syntactic anomaly, while the static face of a speaker was manipulated in terms of gaze direction (direct, averted) and pupil size (mydriasis, miosis). Left anterior negativity (LAN) and P600 linguistic ERP components were observed to syntactic anomalies for all conditions. The speaker’s gaze did not impact syntactic comprehension. However, the amplitude of the LAN component for mydriasis (dilated pupil) was larger than for miosis (constricted pupil) condition. Larger pupils are generally associated with care, trust, interest, and attention, which might facilitate syntactic processing at early automatic stages. The result also supports the permeable and context-dependent nature of syntax. Previous studies also support an automatic nature of syntax (fast and efficient), which combined with the permeability to relevant sources of communicative information, such as pupil size and emotions, is highly adaptive for language comprehension and social interaction.

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