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1、TheJournalofNeuroscience,May9,2012•32(19):6485–6489•6485Behavioral/Systems/CognitiveHowReadinginaSecondLanguageProtectsYourHeartYanJingWu1andGuillaumeThierry1,21SchoolofPsychologyand2EconomicandSocialResearchCouncilCentreforResearchonBilingualisminThe
2、oryandPractice,BangorUniversity,LL572ASBangor,UnitedKingdomReadingwordsinasecondlanguagespontaneouslyactivatesnativelanguagetranslationsinthehumanbilingualmind.Here,weshowthattheemotionalvalenceofawordpresentedinEnglishconstrainsunconsciousaccesstoits
3、Chinesetranslation.WeaskednativespeakersofChinesefluentwithEnglishtoindicatewhetherornotpairsofEnglishwordswererelatedinmeaningwhilemonitoringtheirbrainelectricalactivity.Unbeknownsttotheparticipants,someofthewordpairshidasoundrepetitioniftranslatedin
4、toChinese.Remarkably,Englishwordswithanegativevalencesuchas“violence”didnotautomaticallyactivatetheirChinesetranslation,eventhoughweobservedtheexpectedsoundrepetitionprimingeffectforpositiveandneutralwords,suchas“holiday”and“theory.”Thesefindingsshowt
5、hatemotionconveyedbywordsdetermineslanguageactivationinbilinguals,wherepotentiallydisturbingstimulitriggerinhibitorymechanismsthatblockaccesstothenativelanguage.IntroductionthatemotionalcontentaffectsconsciouslanguageselectioninMorethanhalfoftheworld’
6、spopulationuseswordsintwoorbilinguals.morelanguagesonadailybasis.IthaslongbeendebatedwhetherHere,tounravelunconsciousinteractionsbetweenthepro-bilingualindividualsaccesswordformsfromlong-termmemorycessingofemotionalcontentandbilinguallexicalaccess,wei
7、nalanguage-selectivefashion.Somestudieshaveshownthattestedtheimpactofwordaffectivevalenceonspontaneoustrans-reading,listening,andspeakinginthesecondlanguageautomat-lationinbilinguals.Wecollectedbehavioralandelectrophysio-icallyactivateslexicalrepresen
8、tationsinthefirstlanguage(Dijk-logicaldatainagroupofChinese–Englishbilingualswhiletheystraetal.,1998;SpiveyandMarian,1999;Costaetal.,2000;decidedwhetherornotEnglishtargetwordsweresemanticallyThierryandWu,2007;Martinetal.,2009;WuandThierry,2010
