Xia Ruixue, Jin Ruijie, Yong Lin, Li Shaodong, Li Shifeng, Zhou Aibao
School of Psychology, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China.
Key Laboratory of Behavioral and Mental Health of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, China.
Front Psychol. 2018 Jan 25;8:2114. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02114. eCollection 2017.
Existing neuroimaging studies have shown that religion, as a subjective culture, can influence self-referential processing. However, the time course of this impact remains unclear. The present study examined how Christians process their own names, the name of their religious leader (i.e., Jesus), and a famous person's name (i.e., Yao Ming). Behavioral and EEG data were recorded while the participants performed a name-color judgment task for these three names. The behavioral data showed no significant differences in reaction time or accuracy among the names. However, the ERP data showed that the P200 and P300 amplitudes elicited by the self-name and religious leader name were larger than those elicited by the famous name. Furthermore, the self-name also elicited a larger P300 amplitude than the religious leader name did. These results suggested that both the self-name and the religious leader name were processed preferentially due to their important social value for the self as compared to a generally famous name. Importantly, the dissociation between the self-name and the religious leader name was observed at a high-order cognitive stage, which might be attributed to their different roles in one's self-concept.
现有的神经影像学研究表明，宗教作为一种主观文化，能够影响自我参照加工。然而，这种影响的时间进程仍不清楚。本研究考察了基督教徒如何加工他们自己的名字、他们宗教领袖的名字（即耶稣）以及一位名人的名字（即姚明）。在参与者对这三个名字执行颜色判断任务时，记录了行为和脑电图数据。行为数据显示，这些名字在反应时间或准确性上没有显著差异。然而，脑电图数据显示，自我名字和宗教领袖名字引发的P200和P300波幅大于名人名字引发的波幅。此外，自我名字引发的P300波幅也大于宗教领袖名字引发的波幅。这些结果表明，与一般的名人名字相比，自我名字和宗教领袖名字因其对自我的重要社会价值而被优先加工。重要的是，在高阶认知阶段观察到了自我名字和宗教领袖名字之间的分离，这可能归因于它们在个体自我概念中的不同作用。
