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  • Title: Positive and negative moods differently affect creative meaning processing in both the native and non-native language.
    Author: Jankowiak K, Naranowicz M, Thierry G.
    Journal: Brain Lang; 2022 Dec; 235():105188. PubMed ID: 36242817.
    Abstract:
    Previous research has shown that positive and negative moods differently modulate lexico-semantic processes. However, little is known about effects of mood on creative meaning comprehension in bilinguals. Here, Polish-English (L1-L2) female bilinguals made meaningfulness judgments on L1 and L2 novel metaphoric, literal, and anomalous sentences during an EEG session featuring positive and negative mood induction. While novel metaphors elicited comparable event-related potential responses to anomalous sentences in the N400 time frame indexing lexico-semantic processing, the former evoked smaller amplitudes than the anomalous condition in the late positive complex (LPC) window, marking meaning re-evaluation. Also, the LPC responses to the three sentence types all converged when participants were in a negative mood, indicating that a negative mood, unlike a positive one, inhibits reliance on general knowledge structures and leads to more detail-oriented processing of semantically complex meanings in both L1 and L2.
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