A Study on Cognitive Neural Model of L2 English Emotion-label and Emotion-laden Nouns
The present study explores the cognitive neural model of L2 English emotion-label and emotion-laden nouns by examining the changes of their elicited ERPs in an emotion categorization task.Results show that:1)Both emotion-label and emotion-laden nouns elicite larger N100 than neutral nouns.2)Positive emotion-label nouns induce larger EEPN and smaller N400 than neutral nouns,while emotion-laden and negative emotion-label nouns induce bigger LEPN than neutral nouns.3)Positive emotion-label and emotion-laden nouns display larger LPC than neutral nouns.Based on these findings,a three-stage processing model of L2 emotional nouns is constructed.At the early perceptual processing stage,emotion representation accelerate the morphological recognition of these two types of emotional nouns.At the middle emotional meaning and conceptual meaning processing stage,the semantic access to emotion-label nouns occur earlier than that of emotion-laden nouns and is modulated by valence.At the late context integration stage,the processings of the two types of emotional nouns are both influenced by valence.