Wu Chenggang, Zhang Juan, Yuan Zhen
Multilingual Edu-AI Laboratory, School of Education, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China.
Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Macau, China.
Front Psychol. 2021 Oct 26;12:721783. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.721783. eCollection 2021.
The present event-related potential (ERP) study explored whether masked emotion-laden words could facilitate the processing of both emotion-label words and emotion-laden words in a valence judgment task. The results revealed that emotion-laden words as primes failed to influence target emotion-label word processing, whereas emotion-laden words facilitated target emotion-laden words in the congruent condition. Specifically, decreased late positivity complex (LPC) was elicited by emotion-laden words primed by emotion-laden words of the same valence than those primed by emotion-laden words of different valence. Nevertheless, no difference was observed for emotion-label words as targets. These findings supported the mediated account that claimed emotion-laden words engendered emotion the mediation of emotion-label words and hypothesized that emotion-laden words could not prime emotion-label words in the masked priming paradigm. Moreover, this study provided additional evidence showing the distinction between emotion-laden words and emotion-label words.
本事件相关电位（ERP）研究探讨了在效价判断任务中，被掩蔽的情绪性词语是否能够促进情绪标签词和情绪性词语的加工。结果显示，作为启动刺激的情绪性词语未能影响目标情绪标签词的加工，而在一致条件下，情绪性词语促进了目标情绪性词语的加工。具体而言，与由不同效价的情绪性词语启动相比，由相同效价的情绪性词语启动所引发的晚期正复合体（LPC）降低。然而，作为目标的情绪标签词未观察到差异。这些发现支持了中介账户，即声称情绪性词语在情绪标签词的中介作用下引发情绪，并假设在掩蔽启动范式中情绪性词语不能启动情绪标签词。此外，本研究提供了额外的证据，表明情绪性词语和情绪标签词之间的区别。
