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SUMMARY:Lucía Vieitez
DESCRIPTION:\n“Individual Differences in Grammatical and Emotional Proce
ssing”\n\nLucía Vieitez\, PhD Student in the Procesos Cognitivos e Condu
ta group at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)\, Visiting
Scholar in the Department of Spanish\, Italian and Portuguese at Penn St
ate\n\nFriday\, October 21 9:00–10:30 a.m. EDT 127 Moore Building and vi
rtually via Zoom\n\nDoes emotionality affect how we process language? Th
is question\, while simple in appearance\, has led to a prolific and ext
ent body of literature in the field of linguistics and psycholinguistics
for the past decades. Several ERP studies have used emotionality to she
d some light on the debate between the modular and interactive models of
language processing. However\, their results are inconsistent\, especia
lly regarding unpleasant words. Some studies report interactive effects
of emotionality and grammaticality\, while others have failed to find ev
idence for this interaction. Interestingly\, recent data from number agr
eement studies has shown that there are individual differences in how th
e human brain processes grammar. These individual differences challenge
the functional interpretation of the Left Anterior Negativity (LAN) and
the P600 (referred together as the “Biphasic Pattern”)\, two ERP compone
nts that have been commonly associated with morphosyntactic processing.\
n\nWe designed a series of ERP gender agreement experiments where native
Spanish speakers read grammatically correct and incorrect noun phrases
(NPs\; determiner + noun + adjective) in Spanish. In our last experiment
\, adjectives were either unpleasant (e.g.\, “podrida”\; rotten) or neut
ral in valence (e.g.\, “redonda”\; round)\, and matched or mismatched th
e gender of the determiner and the noun (e.g.\, “la manzana podrida” vs.
*“el manzana podrida”\; the rotten apple). Results regarding individual
differences in grammatical and emotional processing found in the ERP da
ta will be discussed\, along with preliminary findings from our latest s
tudy and directions for further research.\n\nFor more details: https://e
vents.la.psu.edu/event/lucia-vieitez/
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Differences in Grammatical and Emotional Processing”
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ucía Vieitez, PhD Student in the Procesos Cognitivos e Conduta group at
the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Visiting Scholar in th
e Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at Penn State
Friday, October 21 9:00–10:30 a.m. EDT 127 Moore Building a
nd virtually via Zoom
Does emotionality affect how we pro
cess language? This question, while simple in appearance, has led to a p
rolific and extent body of literature in the field of linguistics and ps
ycholinguistics for the past decades. Several ERP studies have used emot
ionality to shed some light on the debate between the modular and intera
ctive models of language processing. However, their results are inconsis
tent, especially regarding unpleasant words. Some studies report interac
tive effects of emotionality and grammaticality, while others have faile
d to find evidence for this interaction. Interestingly, recent data from
number agreement studies has shown that there are individual difference
s in how the human brain processes grammar. These individual differences
challenge the functional interpretation of the Left Anterior Negativity
(LAN) and the P600 (referred together as the “Biphasic Pattern”), two E
RP components that have been commonly associated with morphosyntactic pr
ocessing.
We designed a series of ERP gender agreement experiments
where native Spanish speakers read grammatically correct and incorrect
noun phrases (NPs; determiner + noun + adjective) in Spanish. In our las
t experiment, adjectives were either unpleasant (e.g., “podrida”; rotten
) or neutral in valence (e.g., “redonda”; round), and matched or mismatc
hed the gender of the determiner and the noun (e.g., “la manzana podrida
” vs. *“el manzana podrida”; the rotten apple). Results regarding indivi
dual differences in grammatical and emotional processing found in the ER
P data will be discussed, along with preliminary findings from our lates
t study and directions for further research.
For more details: https://events.la.
psu.edu/event/lucia-vieitez/
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