How the brain processes emotional meaning of indirect reply: evidence from EEG

被引：3
作者：
Guo, Xinyu [1 ,2 ]
Li, Xiaoqing [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Yang, Yufang [1 ,2 ,3 ]
机构：
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, CAS Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Psychol, Beijing, Peoples R China
[3] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, CAS Key Lab Behav Sci, 16 Lincui Rd, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
来源：
LANGUAGE COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE | 2023年 / 38卷 / 09期
基金：
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词：
Indirect reply; pragmatic inference; speakers' intention; language understanding; EEG (Electroencephalogram); VERBAL IRONY; ERP EVIDENCE; ALPHA-BAND; COMPREHENSION; LANGUAGE; DESYNCHRONIZATION; INFORMATION; RESPONSES; SPEAKER; WORDS;
D O I：
10.1080/23273798.2023.2232055
中图分类号：
R36 [病理学]; R76 [耳鼻咽喉科学];
学科分类号：
100104 ; 100213 ;
摘要：
People often express their message and emotions through indirect utterances. How the intended meaning of indirect utterances is comprehended remains not completely clear. We investigated how the emotional meaning of indirect replies is processed in the brain. Participants were required to comprehend dialogues. Three types of replies were constructed: direct reply, informative indirect reply and negative indirect reply. Our results showed that both informative and negative indirect replies were understood with lower accuracy and longer behavioural reaction times than direct replies. Moreover, informative indirect replies elicited a larger N400 than direct replies, whereas negative indirect replies (compared to informative indirect replies as well as direct replies) elicited enhanced ERP responses only over the late P600 component. These findings suggest that the cognitive processes involved in and the time course of the comprehension of indirect replies change dynamically as a function of the emotional aspects of the intended meaning.
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页码：1302 / 1317
页数：16
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