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Meinst Du mich? Effekte des kommunikativen Kontexts auf die zerebrale Verarbeitung emotionaler Wörter

Antragstellerin Professorin Dr. Brigitte Rockstroh, seit 3/2013
Fachliche Zuordnung Allgemeine, Kognitive und Mathematische Psychologie
Förderung Förderung von 2010 bis 2014
Projektkennung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 163313781
 
Erstellungsjahr 2014

Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse

This project investigated the effects of mood and perceived sender identity (human versus artificial) on the cortical processing of emotional words. Electrophysiology first demonstrated that mood sensitized early visual processing in a hemisphere-specific manner. Second, specifically positive mood amplified the early posterior negativity to positive stimuli in a moodcongruent manner. Third, in tendency, the late positive potential was most pronounced for negative words, regardless of mood induction. Hemodynamic modulations in response to mood-induction were found in the insula. Regardless of mood, processing of emotional, particularly negative, words induced stronger responses in the visual cortex. Perceiving a written statement as emotional trait feedback from another human, rather than as randomly generated by a computer, in spite of physically identical stimulation, likewise dramatically amplified the word’s visual processing, particularly in the fusiform gyrus. This largely held even when the computer was portrayed as equipped with a socially intelligent software. Amplifications of fusiform activity were also found in response to emotional stimuli. This finding that has previously been accounted for within the motivated attention framework. Thus, the present findings indicate that contextual factors can tune motivated attention to communicatory signals. These findings for the first time demonstrate effects of psychological (rather than physical) context on the processing of language stimuli and lay the groundwork for further investigations of communicative context in social and affective neuroscience.

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