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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Decision Science

Background:

  • Foreign-language use can alter cognitive processes, including decision-making.
  • Previous research suggests a foreign-language effect on risk-taking behavior, particularly concerning biases like the hot-hand fallacy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the neural mechanisms underlying the foreign-language effect on decision-making.
  • To examine how processing information in a native versus foreign language affects emotional feedback encoding and subsequent risk-taking behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Neural oscillations (alpha and theta activity) were measured during a gambling task.
  • Participants made decisions in both their native language (Chinese) and a foreign language (English).
  • Feedback valence (positive/negative outcomes) was presented in either language.

Main Results:

  • Positive feedback in English led to greater alpha suppression compared to Chinese, indicating increased attentional demands.
  • Theta synchronization decreased after positive feedback in English versus Chinese, suggesting reduced emotional impact.
  • Language differences in neural activity correlated with behavioral choices, specifically the proportion of "play" decisions after positive feedback.

Conclusions:

  • Processing information in a foreign language modulates neural responses to emotional feedback.
  • The foreign-language effect reduces the emotional significance of feedback, thereby influencing risk-taking behavior and potentially mitigating biases like the hot-hand fallacy.
  • Neural evidence supports the role of processing fluency in mediating the foreign-language effect on risk-taking.