The Posterior Sustained Negativity Revisited—An SPN Reanalysis of Jacobsen and Höfel (2003)

Jacobsen, Thomas; Klein, Stina; Löw, Andreas

doi:10.3390/sym10010027

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“…This would be in line with suggested links between sustained posterior negativities and task effects (Jacobsen, Klein, & Löw, 2018). Such a strategy may also have reduced the reanalysis or syntactic repair computations that participants carried out, which could explain the short duration of the P600 effect.…”

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Native and non-native parsing of adjective placement—an ERP study of Mandarin and English sentence processing

Wolpert¹,

Zhang²,

Baum³

et al. 2023

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The rules governing adjective-noun order vary crosslinguistically, and event-related potentials have shown that violations of these rules elicit biphasic responses in native speakers and advanced non-native learners. We built on prior findings by replicating an English experiment and running a new experiment in Mandarin. In the replication, we tested native English speakers with advanced Mandarin proficiency (n=20); for the Mandarin experiment, we tested the same English-Mandarin bilinguals along with Mandarin native speakers (n=32). Native speakers in both languages showed the expected biphasic effect. However, to our surprise, native speakers’ Mandarin results showed an additional effect at the first word of the correct adjective-noun order, and Mandarin non-native speakers showed only an early effect. To explore these results, we compared individual differences, showing that participants varied in response patterns. We interpret our results as demonstrating that even when languages share adjective placement rules, processing can be impacted by crosslinguistic differences.

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Section: English Experimentssupporting

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Native and non-native parsing of adjective placement—an ERP study of Mandarin and English sentence processing

Wolpert¹,

Zhang²,

Baum³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…The predictions of the holographic model have been tested empirically and have been shown to accurately relate to behavioural performance (Nucci & Wagemans, 2007) and neural activity (Makin et al, 2016). Makin et al (2016) conducted a large EEG/ERP study to investigate whether the W-metric predicts the amplitude of the symmetry-related component: the sustained posterior negativity (SPN; Bertamini, Silvanto, Norcia, Makin, & Wagemans, 2018;Höfel & Jacobsen, 2007;Jacobsen & Höfel, 2003;Jacobsen, Klein, & Löw, 2018;Makin, Wilton, Pecchinenda, & Bertamini, 2012;Martinovic, Jennings, Makin, Bertamini, & Angelescu, 2018;Wright, Mitchell, Dering, & Gheorghiu, 2018). Briefly, the SPN is a relative component given by the difference in amplitude between ERPs generated by symmetrical (regular) and asymmetrical (irregular) images with same local information.…”

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Electrophysiological responses to regularity show specificity to global form: The case of Glass patterns

Rampone

Makin

2020

Eur J of Neuroscience

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The holographic weight of evidence model (van der Helm & Leeuwenberg, J Math Psychol, 35, 1991, 151; van der Helm & Leeuwenberg, Psychol Rev, 103, 1996, 429) estimates that the perceptual goodness of moiré structures (Glass patterns), irrespective of their global form, is comparable to that of reflection symmetry. However, both behavioural and neuroscience evidences suggest that certain Glass forms (i.e. circular and radial structures) are perceptually more salient than others (i.e. translation structures) and may recruit different perceptual mechanisms. In this study, we tested whether brain responses for circular, radial and translation Glass patterns are comparable to the response for onefold bilateral reflection symmetry. We recorded an event‐related potential (ERP), called the sustained posterior negativity (SPN), which has been shown to index perceptual goodness of a range of regularities. We found that circular and radial Glass patterns generated a comparable SPN amplitude to onefold reflection symmetry (in line with the prediction of the holographic model), starting approx. 180 ms after stimulus onset. Conversely, the SPN response to translation Glass patterns had a longer latency (approx. 400 ms). These results show that Glass patterns are a special case of visual regularity, and perceptual goodness may not be fully explained by the holographic identities that constitute it. Specialised processing mechanisms might exist in the regularity‐sensitive extrastriate areas, which are tuned to global form configurations.

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“…Hence, symmetry might not be as universal, as assumed previously; still, it allocates a significance, which should not be underestimated due to individuality regarding the subjective perception of beauty. This is supported by the finding that, independent of task requirements, there is a sustained posterior negativity (SPN) that is observable after presenting symmetrical stimuli [13,19,20], indicating that symmetry is processed in any case [21].…”

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Anticipatory Defocusing of Attention and Contextual Response Priming but No Role of Aesthetic Appreciation in Simple Symmetry Judgments when Switching between Tasks

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Visual attention can be adjusted to task requirements. We asked participants to switch between judging the symmetry of vertically presented three-letter strings and identifying the central stimulus (i.e., Eriksen task) to investigate anticipatory adjustment of attention. Our experiments provide evidence for anticipatory adjustment of visual attention, depending on the cued task (i.e., focusing and defocusing of attention after the Eriksen task cue and after the symmetry task cue, respectively). Although, symmetry judgments were, overall, considerably slower than the identification of the central letter, the effects of response congruency between tasks were comparable in the two tasks, which suggested strong response priming from concurrent symmetry judgment in Eriksen task trials. Symmetry judgment performance was best for homogeneous letter strings (e.g., HHH), worst for strings that were symmetrical and inhomogeneous (e.g., XHX), and intermediate for asymmetrical strings (e.g., HHX). The difficulty of categorizing symmetrical-inhomogeneous items markedly deviated from the aesthetic ratings of the stimuli, displaying a pronounced preference for symmetrical strings, but only little difference among the symmetrical items, and might be accounted by conflict with response priming based on inhomogeneity detection. Although our study provides little evidence for an effect of aesthetic appreciation in simple symmetry judgments, it demonstrates the strong role of contextual dependencies.

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The Posterior Sustained Negativity Revisited—An SPN Reanalysis of Jacobsen and Höfel (2003)

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Native and non-native parsing of adjective placement—an ERP study of Mandarin and English sentence processing

Native and non-native parsing of adjective placement—an ERP study of Mandarin and English sentence processing

Electrophysiological responses to regularity show specificity to global form: The case of Glass patterns

Anticipatory Defocusing of Attention and Contextual Response Priming but No Role of Aesthetic Appreciation in Simple Symmetry Judgments when Switching between Tasks

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