School of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China.
School of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China.
Brain Lang. 2022 May;228:105105. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105105. Epub 2022 Mar 15.
First-person narratives are more attentively and emotionally engaging than third-person narratives. This study examined whether and how personal perspective modulates counterfactual processing. Participants read counterfactual and causal conditionals written from the first-person or third-person perspective (e.g., If/Because I/he had read enough literature before, I/he would have finished my/his thesis easily.), followed by factual consequences that contained a critical word either consistent or inconsistent with preceding contexts (e.g., Therefore, when I/he was about to defend the thesis I/he felt panicked/confident). In both perspectives, inconsistent words showed a prolonged N400 vs. consistent words in the counterfactual condition, but a larger P600 in the causal condition. The critical word showed a larger P600 in the first- than the third-person condition in counterfactual scenarios, but not in causal scenarios. These findings suggest that personal perspective exerts different influences on counterfactual processing, presumably by modulating the amount of attentional resources involved.
第一人称叙述比第三人称叙述更能引起注意和情感共鸣。本研究考察了个人视角是否以及如何调节反事实处理。参与者阅读了从第一人称或第三人称视角（例如，如果/因为我/他在之前阅读了足够的文献，我/他会轻松完成我的/他的论文。）撰写的反事实和因果条件句，然后是包含与前文一致或不一致的关键词的事实后果（例如，因此，当我/他准备辩护我的/他的论文时，我/他感到恐慌/自信。）在两种视角下，反事实条件下不一致的词比一致的词在 N400 上表现出更长的潜伏期，但在因果条件下 P600 更大。在反事实情景中，关键词在第一人称条件下比第三人称条件下表现出更大的 P600，但在因果情景中则没有。这些发现表明，个人视角对反事实处理产生了不同的影响，可能是通过调节所涉及的注意力资源的数量来实现的。
