Aristei, Sabrina; Knoop, Christine A.; Lubrich, Oliver; Nehrlich, Thomas; Enge, Alexander; Stark, Kirsten; Sommer, Werner; Abdel Rahman, Rasha (2022). Affect as Anaesthetic: how emotional contexts modulate the processing of counterintuitive concepts. Language, cognition and neuroscience, 38(10), pp. 1514-1530. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/23273798.2022.2085312
Full text not available from this repository.In popular narratives, minimally counterintuitive concepts (MCIs), which violate one category of our real-world knowledge (e.g. talking trees), are frequently embedded in emotional contexts. To assess the impact of emotion on MCI processing, we presented micro-narratives with negative or neutral contents before target sentences. We compared electrophysiological correlates of semantic processing elicited by MCIs, common semantic expectancy violations, and intuitive concepts, presented as critical within-sentence words and as images after the sentences. Results show that emotional contexts play a critical role for MCI processing. N400 effects in neural responses to MCIs that we observed after neutral contexts were not found after negative contexts, suggesting that the synergy between emotional context and MCI saliency enhances the processing of narratives at the cost of critical semantic processing. This finding is relevant for neurocognitive models of language comprehension in high-level contexts, for our understanding of the attraction of counterintuitive concepts and rhetorical strategies.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Germanic Languages 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Germanic Languages > Modern German Literary Studies |
UniBE Contributor: |
Lubrich, Oliver, Nehrlich, Thomas Philip |
Subjects: |
400 Language > 430 German & related languages 800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 830 German & related literatures 800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism |
ISSN: |
2327-3801 |
Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Thomas Philip Nehrlich |
Date Deposited: |
16 Mar 2023 12:16 |
Last Modified: |
26 Nov 2023 02:15 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1080/23273798.2022.2085312 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/180196 |
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