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Neuroscience Letters

Volume 480, Issue 2, 16 August 2010, Pages 162-166
Neuroscience Letters

An ERP study on the effect of self-relevant possessive pronoun

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Abstract

The present study examined the electrophysiological correlates of the psychological processing of possessive pronouns such as “wo de” (Chinese for “my”/“mine”) and “ta de” (Chinese for “his”) using a three-stimulus oddball paradigm. Sixteen participants were visually presented the stimuli (possessive pronouns, small circle and big circle). The results showed that, relative to non-self-relevant possessive pronoun “ta de”, self-relevant possessive pronoun “wo de” elicited a significantly larger P300 amplitude independently. The present study suggested that the self-relevant possessive pronoun was psychologically important to human beings.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Ying Zhu at Peking University for his advice and comments. We also thank Heping Wu, Dawei Wei and Youhao Zhai for polishing this English version. In addition, we are also grateful for the helpful comments and suggestions made by two anonymous reviewers. All errors remain our own. This product was funded by the Knowledge and Technology Innovation Project of NWNU, award number NWNU-KJCXGC-SK0303-2.

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