RT Journal Article
T1 Processing gender agreement errors in pleasant and unpleasant words: An ERP study at the sentence level
A1 Padrón Rodríguez, Isabel
A1 Fraga Carou, Isabel
A1 Acuña Fariña, Juan Carlos
K1 Emotional words
K1 Event-related potentials
K1 Gender agreement
K1 LAN
K1 P600
AB In this study we examine the extent to which aspects such as the emotionality coded in words may interfere withthe processing of gender agreement errors in a sentence grammaticality judgement task. We follow the methodologicalpattern of our previous experiments, using consistently the same kind of structure and task (genderagreement) and only emotional (pleasant vs unpleasant) words, in an attempt to clarify whether neural correlatesand performance show similar patterns in positive and negative words. We found an emotional effect in theN400 time window for unpleasant adjectives as well as the classic grammaticality effects in the left anteriornegativity (LAN) and the P600 components. Overall, our results confirm those of our previous studies in that theLAN and the P600 grammaticality effects are not influenced by the emotional valence of moderately arousingpleasant and unpleasant words, showing that during sentence reading morphosyntactic error detection seems tobe encapsulated
PB Elsevier
SN 0304-3940
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26083
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26083
LA eng
NO Padrón, I., Fraga, I., & Acuña-Fariña, C. (2020). Processing gender agreement errors in pleasant and unpleasant words: An ERP study at the sentence level. Neuroscience letters, 714, 134538
NO The present study was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (MINECO/FEDER; Grant Nos. PSI2015-65116-P) and a research grant from the Autonomous Government of Galicia (Consellería de Educación, Xunta de Galicia, grant code GRC 2015/006)
DS Minerva
RD 23 abr 2026