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Emotional text messages affect the early processing of emoticons depending on their emotional congruence: evidence from the N170 and EPN event related potentials

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dc.contributor.authorALDUNATE, NEREA
dc.contributor.authorLópez, Vladimir
dc.contributor.authorRojas‑Thomas, Felipe
dc.contributor.authorVillena‑González, Mario
dc.contributor.authorPalacios, Ismael
dc.contributor.authorArtigas, Claudio
dc.contributor.authorRodríguez, Eugenio
dc.contributor.authorBosman, Conrado A.
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-10T20:05:07Z
dc.date.available2024-09-10T20:05:07Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractEmoticons have been considered pragmatic cues that enhance emotional expressivity during computer-mediated communication. Yet, it is unclear how emoticons are processed in ambiguous text-based communication due to incongruences between the emoticon's emotional valence and its context. In this study, we investigated the electrophysiological correlates of contextual influence on the early emotional processing of emoticons, during an emotional congruence judgment task. Participants were instructed to judge the congruence between a text message expressing an emotional situation (positive or negative), and a subsequent emoticon expressing positive or negative emotions. We analyzed early event-related potentials elicited by emoticons related to face processing (N170) and emotional salience in visual perception processing (Early Posterior Negativity, EPN). Our results show that accuracy and Reaction Times depend on the interaction between the emotional valence of the context and the emoticon. Negative emoticons elicited a larger N170, suggesting that the emotional information of the emoticon is integrated at the early stages of the perceptual process. During emoticon processing, a valence effect was observed with enhanced EPN amplitudes in occipital areas for emoticons representing negative valences. Moreover, we observed a congruence effect in parieto-temporal sites within the same time-window, with larger amplitudes for the congruent condition. We conclude that, similar to face processing, emoticons are processed differently according to their emotional content and the context in which they are embedded. A congruent context might enhance the emotional salience of the emoticon (and therefore, its emotional expression) during the early stages of their processing.
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dc.identifier.citationAldunate, N., López, V., Rojas-Thomas, F., Villena-González, M., Palacios, I., Artigas, C., Rodríguez, E., Bosman, CA.(2024). Emotional text messages affect the early processing of emoticons depending on their emotional congruence: evidence from the N170 and EPN Event Related Potentials. Cognitive Processing, 1-14. DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01223-y
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-024-01223-y
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11447/9293
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectN170
dc.subjectEPN
dc.subjectEarly emotional processing
dc.subjectEmotional salience
dc.subjectTypographic emoticons
dc.subjectContext
dc.titleEmotional text messages affect the early processing of emoticons depending on their emotional congruence: evidence from the N170 and EPN event related potentials
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dcterms.sourceCognitive Processing
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