TY  - JOUR
A1  - Czerwon, Beate
A1  - Hohlfeld, Annette
A1  - Wiese, Heike
A1  - Werheid, Katja
T1  - Syntactic structural parallelisms influence processing of positive stimuli evidence from cross-modal ERP priming
JF  - International journal of psychophysiology
N2  - Language can strongly influence the emotional state of the recipient. In contrast to the broad body of experimental and neuroscientific research on semantic information and prosodic speech, the emotional impact of grammatical structure has rarely been investigated. One reason for this might be, that measuring effects of syntactic structure involves the use of complex stimuli, for which the emotional impact of grammar is difficult to isolate. In the present experiment we examined the emotional impact of structural parallelisms, that is, repetitions of syntactic features, on the emotion-sensitive "late positive potential" (LPP) with a cross-modal priming paradigm. Primes were auditory presented nonsense sentences which included grammatical-syntactic parallelisms. Visual targets were positive, neutral, and negative faces, to be classified as emotional or non-emotional by the participants. Electrophysiology revealed diminished LPP amplitudes for positive faces following parallel primes. Thus, our findings suggest that grammatical structure creates an emotional context that facilitates processing of positive emotional information.
KW  - Language
KW  - Emotion
KW  - Priming
KW  - ERP
KW  - Late positive potential
KW  - Structural parallelisms
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.10.014
SN  - 0167-8760
SN  - 1872-7697
VL  - 87
IS  - 1
SP  - 28
EP  - 34
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Czerwon, Beate
A1  - Köhncke, Ylva
A1  - Hohlfeld, Annette
A1  - Wiese, Heike
A1  - Werheid, Katja
T1  - Parallelisms in grammatical structure modulate LPP AND N400 in an affecive priming paradigm with emotional faces and words
T2  - Psychophysiology : journal of the Society for Psychophysiological Research
Y1  - 2012
SN  - 0048-5772
VL  - 49
SP  - S26
EP  - S26
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Czerwon, Beate
A1  - Hohlfeld, Annette
A1  - Wiese, Heike
A1  - Werheid, Katja
T1  - The influence of complex verbal stimuli on emotion processing in youngerand older adults investigated by a cross-modal priming task - an ERP study
T2  - Psychophysiology : journal of the Society for Psychophysiological Research
KW  - ERP
KW  - emotion
KW  - priming
Y1  - 2011
SN  - 0048-5772
VL  - 48
SP  - S59
EP  - S59
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Malden
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dimigen, Olaf
A1  - Sommer, Werner
A1  - Hohlfeld, Annette
A1  - Jacobs, Arthur M.
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
T1  - Coregistration of eye movements and EEG in natural reading analyses and review
JF  - Journal of experimental psychology : General
N2  - Brain-electric correlates of reading have traditionally been studied with word-by-word presentation, a condition that eliminates important aspects of the normal reading process and precludes direct comparisons between neural activity and oculomotor behavior. In the present study, we investigated effects of word predictability on eye movements (EM) and fixation-related brain potentials (FRPs) during natural sentence reading. Electroencephalogram (EEG) and EM (via video-based eye tracking) were recorded simultaneously while subjects read heterogeneous German sentences, moving their eyes freely over the text. FRPs were time-locked to first-pass reading fixations and analyzed according to the cloze probability of the currently fixated word. We replicated robust effects of word predictability on EMs and the N400 component in FRPs. The data were then used to model the relation among fixation duration, gaze duration, and N400 amplitude, and to trace the time course of EEG effects relative to effects in EM behavior. In an extended Methodological Discussion section, we review 4 technical and data-analytical problems that need to be addressed when FRPs are recorded in free-viewing situations (such as reading, visual search, or scene perception) and propose solutions. Results suggest that EEG recordings during normal vision are feasible and useful to consolidate findings from EEG and eye-tracking studies.
KW  - EEG
KW  - eye tracking
KW  - fixation-related potentials
KW  - artifact correction
KW  - natural viewing
Y1  - 2011
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1037/a0023885
SN  - 0096-3445
VL  - 140
IS  - 4
SP  - 552
EP  - 572
PB  - American Psychological Association
CY  - Washington
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Czerwon, Beate
A1  - Hohlfeld, Annette
A1  - Wiese, Heike
A1  - Werheid, Katja
T1  - Poster 185 : Facilitated processing of positive emotional information by verbal structural parallelisms ; an ERP study
Y1  - 2009
UR  - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291469-8986
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00920.x
SN  - 0048-5772
ER  -