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The Role of Predictability During Negation Processing in Truth-Value Judgment Tasks
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In: J Psycholinguist Res (2021)
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In experiments investigating the processing of true and false negative sentences, it is often reported that polarity interacts with truth-value, in the sense that true sentences lead to faster reaction times than false sentences in affirmative conditions whereas the same does not hold for negative sentences. Various reasons for this difference between affirmative and negative sentences have been discussed in the literature (e.g., lexical associations, predictability, ease of comparing sentence and world). In the present study, we excluded lexical associations as a potential influencing factor. Participants saw artificial visual worlds (e.g., a white square and a black circle) and corresponding sentences (i.e., “The square/circle is (not) white”). The results showed a clear effect of truth-value for affirmative sentences (true faster than false) but not for negative sentences. This result implies that the well-known truth-value-by-polarity interaction cannot solely be due to long-term lexical associations. Additional predictability manipulations allowed us to also rule out an explanatory account that attributes the missing truth-value effect for negative sentences to low predictability. We also discuss the viability of an informativeness account.
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09804-0 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34674141 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8660726/
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Irony as a Test of the Presupposition-Denial Account: An ERP Study
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In: J Psycholinguist Res (2021)
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Conceptual representation of real-world surface material: Early integration with linguistic-labels indicated in the N400-component
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Task-dependent evaluative processing of moral and emotional content during comprehension: an ERP study
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The Processing of Moral Transgressions: Investigating the Role of Affective Evaluations
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Integration of Visual Information about the Speaker during Sentence Processing ...
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Integration of Visual Information about the Speaker during Sentence Processing
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When language gets emotional: irony and the embodiment of affect in discourse
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Early emotion word processing: evidence from event-related potentials
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Brain potential correlates of face recognition: Geometric distortions and the N250r brain response to stimulus repetitions
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Voluntary and involuntary control of automatic processing in spatial congruency tasks
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