EEG theta responses induced by emoji semantic violations

Abstract This study investigated emoji semantic processing by measuring changes in event-related electroencephalogram (EEG) power. The last segment of experimental sentences was designed as either words or emojis consistent or inconsistent with the sentential context. The results showed that incongr...

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Autores principales: Mengmeng Tang, Xiufeng Zhao, Bingfei Chen, Lun Zhao
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/10d24f38775849a48c5926e6ecd4b90b
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Sumario:Abstract This study investigated emoji semantic processing by measuring changes in event-related electroencephalogram (EEG) power. The last segment of experimental sentences was designed as either words or emojis consistent or inconsistent with the sentential context. The results showed that incongruent emojis led to a conspicuous increase of theta power (4–7 Hz), while incongruent words induced a decrease. Furthermore, the theta power increase was observed at midfrontal, occipital and bilateral temporal lobes with emojis. This suggests a higher working memory load for monitoring errors, difficulty of form recognition and concept retrieval in emoji semantic processing. It implies different neuro-cognitive processes involved in the semantic processing of emojis and words.