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| Title |
Automatic Processing of Emotional Words in the Absence of Awareness: The Critical Role of P2
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, April 2017
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00592 |
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| Authors |
Yi Lei, Haoran Dou, Qingming Liu, Wenhai Zhang, Zhonglu Zhang, Hong Li |
| Abstract |
It has been long debated to what extent emotional words can be processed in the absence of awareness. Behavioral studies have shown that the meaning of emotional words can be accessed even without any awareness. However, functional magnetic resonance imaging studies have revealed that emotional words that are unconsciously presented do not activate the brain regions involved in semantic or emotional processing. To clarify this point, we used continuous flash suppression (CFS) and event-related potential (ERP) techniques to distinguish between semantic and emotional processing. In CFS, we successively flashed some Mondrian-style images into one participant's eye steadily, which suppressed the images projected to the other eye. Negative, neutral, and scrambled words were presented to 16 healthy participants for 500 ms. Whenever the participants saw the stimuli-in both visible and invisible conditions-they pressed specific keyboard buttons. Behavioral data revealed that there was no difference in reaction time to negative words and to neutral words in the invisible condition, although negative words were processed faster than neutral words in the visible condition. The ERP results showed that negative words elicited a larger P2 amplitude in the invisible condition than in the visible condition. The P2 component was enhanced for the neutral words compared with the scrambled words in the visible condition; however, the scrambled words elicited larger P2 amplitudes than the neutral words in the invisible condition. These results suggest that the emotional processing of words is more sensitive than semantic processing in the conscious condition. Semantic processing was found to be attenuated in the absence of awareness. Our findings indicate that P2 plays an important role in the unconscious processing of emotional words, which highlights the fact that emotional processing may be automatic and prioritized compared with semantic processing in the absence of awareness. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 1 | 17% |
| Germany | 1 | 17% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 3 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 83% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 17% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 43 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 16% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 9% |
| Lecturer | 2 | 5% |
| Other | 6 | 14% |
| Unknown | 13 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 17 | 40% |
| Neuroscience | 6 | 14% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 2% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 1 | 2% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 2 | 5% |
| Unknown | 15 | 35% |
Attention Score in Context
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