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**ufang Yang
Psychology
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Concurrent emotional response and semantic unification: An event-related potential study
Using event-related potentials, in this study we examined how implied emotion is derived from sentences. In the same sentential context, different emotionally neutral words rendered the whole sentence emotiona...
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The dynamic influence of emotional words on sentence comprehension: An ERP study
In the present study, we explored the influence of emotional words on the semantic integration of their following neutral nouns during sentence comprehension. We manipulated the emotionality of verbs and the s...
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The processing difference between person names and common nouns in sentence contexts: an ERP study
Person names and common nouns differ in how they are stored in the mental lexicon. Using event-related potentials, this study compared the integration of names and nouns into sentence contexts. Both person nam...
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The dynamic influence of emotional words on sentence processing
In the present study, we aimed to examine how the emotionality of words influences online sentence processing—specifically, the influence of emotional words on the processing of following words in sentences. W...
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The effect of discourse structure on depth of semantic integration in reading
A coherent discourse exhibits certain structures in that subunits of discourses are related to one another in various ways and in that subunits that contribute to the same discourse purpose are joined to creat...
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Individuals with congenital amusia imitate pitches more accurately in singing than in speaking: Implications for music and language processing
In this study, we investigated the impact of congenital amusia, a disorder of musical processing, on speech and song imitation in speakers of a tone language, Mandarin. A group of 13 Mandarin-speaking individu...
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ERP evidence on the interaction between information structure and emotional salience of words
Both emotional words and words focused by information structure can capture attention. This study examined the interplay between emotional salience and information structure in modulating attentional resources...
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Impaired categorical perception of lexical tones in Mandarin-speaking congenital amusics
The degree to which cognitive resources are shared in the processing of musical pitch and lexical tones remains uncertain. Testing Mandarin amusics on their categorical perception of Mandarin lexical tones may...
