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Katarzyna Jankowiak1, Marcin Naranowicz1, Guillaume Thierry2
1Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Grunwaldzka 6, 60-780 Poznan, Poland.
Brain and Language
|October 15, 2022
Summary
Mood impacts how bilinguals understand creative language. Negative moods hinder reliance on general knowledge, promoting detailed processing of complex meanings in both native and second languages.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Psycholinguistics
- Bilingualism Research
Background:
- Mood states significantly influence cognitive processes, including lexico-semantic processing.
- Limited understanding exists regarding mood effects on creative meaning comprehension in bilingual individuals.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the impact of positive and negative moods on creative meaning comprehension in Polish-English bilinguals.
- To examine electrophysiological responses (EEG) during the processing of novel metaphors, literal sentences, and anomalous sentences under different mood conditions.
Main Methods:
- Utilized electroencephalography (EEG) to record brain activity in Polish-English bilinguals.
- Induced positive and negative moods prior to participants making meaningfulness judgments on L1 and L2 sentences.
- Analyzed event-related potentials (ERPs), specifically the N400 and Late Positive Complex (LPC) components.
Main Results:
- Novel metaphors and anomalous sentences elicited similar N400 responses, indicating comparable lexico-semantic processing.
- Novel metaphors showed smaller LPC amplitudes than anomalous sentences, suggesting differences in meaning re-evaluation.
- Negative mood led to converged LPC responses across all sentence types, unlike positive mood.
Conclusions:
- Negative mood inhibits the use of general knowledge structures during meaning comprehension in bilinguals.
- A negative mood promotes more detail-oriented processing of semantically complex meanings, irrespective of language (L1/L2).
- Mood significantly modulates creative meaning comprehension and reliance on background knowledge in bilinguals.
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