Neural correlates of processing emotions in words across cultures

Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Peiyao Chen, Bingle Chen, Thomas F. Münte, Chunming Lu, Li Liu, Taomei GuoAbstractCulture influences its individuals' behaviors in a subtle yet effective way. While the physical experience of emotions is largely biologically determined, emotion perception and processing can still be culturally specific. The present study investigates the neural mechanisms that underlie emotion processing and experience in two cultures. Participants from Eastern and Western cultures performed a lexical decision task on positive and negative words, along with pseudowords. While the two groups' behavioral response to emotional words did not differ, Eastern participants showed greater activation in the left cerebellum and ...

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