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Effects of negative content on the processing of gender information: An event-related potential study

Publicated to:COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE. 14 (4): 1286-1299 - 2014-12-01 14(4), DOI: 10.3758/s13415-014-0291-x

Authors: Hinojosa, Jose A; Albert, Jacobo; Fernandez-Folgueiras, Uxia; Santaniello, Gerardo; Lopez-Bachiller, Cristina; Sebastian, Manuel; Sanchez-Carmona, Alberto J; Pozo, Miguel A

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Univ Complutense Madrid, Fac Psicol, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Complutense Madrid, Inst Pluridisciplinar, E-28040 Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Distancia Madrid, Dept Psicol, Madrid, Spain - Author

Abstract

Previous research on emotion in language has mainly concerned the impact of emotional information on several aspects of lexico-semantic analyses of single words. However, affective influences on morphosyntactic processing are less understood. In the present study, we focused on the impact of negative valence in the processing of gender agreement relations. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants read three-word phrases and performed a syntactic judgment task. Negative and neutral adjectives could agree or disagree in gender with the preceding noun. At an electrophysiological level, the amplitude of a left anterior negativity (LAN) to gender agreement mismatches decreased in negative words, relative to neutral words. The behavioral data suggested that LAN amplitudes might be indexing the processing costs associated with the detection of gender agreement errors, since the detection of gender mismatches resulted in faster and more accurate responses than did the detection of correct gender agreement relations. According to this view, it seems that negative content facilitated the processes implicated in the early detection of gender agreement mismatches. However, gender agreement violations in negative words triggered processes involved in the reanalysis and repair of the syntactic structure, as reflected in larger P600 amplitudes to incorrect than to correct phrases, irrespective of their emotional valence.

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Brain potentialsEmotionErp evidenceEvent-related potentialsEye-movementsGender agreementLanLanguageMass univariate analysisNumber informationP600Phrase structureReading emotional wordsTime-courseWrap-up

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2014, it was in position 11/51, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Behavioral Sciences.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 3.08, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Aug 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-08-02, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 28
  • Scopus: 28

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-08-02:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 39.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 39 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 2.85.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 3 (Altmetric).