摘要：The current study investigated the neuro mechanisms of emoji processing as sentence predicate in written context. In the hybrid textuality which is more cognitively engaging, emojis in sentential intermediate positions were designed as either congruent or incongruent to the context. The results showed that incongruent words led to a robust N400 effect, while incongruent emojis only elicited the P600 effect. It implies that semantics and syntax of words can be separated while those of emojis seem to be integrated together. That is, when the meaning of the emoji is violated to the sentential context, its grammatical role cannot be well interpreted, especially when it is used as a key grammatical component in a sentence, such as the predicate. Thus, it shows that even though the meaning of emojis can be interpreted by readers, their syntactic and semantic functions cannot be clearly separated. In comparison with word processing, the larger amplitude with emojis in the time window of 350-500 ms shows more cognitive efforts in emoji semantic processing, possibly arising from the switch of modalities within the visual channel, that is, the multimodal cognitive load.

关键字：Emojis; Semantic processing; Syntactic processing; Intermediate position; ERPs

ISSN号：1871-4080

卷、期、页：卷18,期4：1743–1752

发表日期：2024-08-01

期刊分区（SCI为中科院分区）：二区

收录情况：SCI（科学引文索引印刷版）,SCIE（科学引文索引网络版）

发表期刊名称：COGNITIVE NEURODYNAMICS

参与作者：Zhao, Lun

第一作者：唐萌萌,陈冰飞,赵秀凤

论文类型：期刊论文

论文概要：唐萌萌,陈冰飞,赵秀凤,Zhao, Lun，Semantic and syntactic processing of emojis in sentential intermediate positions，COGNITIVE NEURODYNAMICS，2024，卷18,期4：1743–1752

论文题目：Semantic and syntactic processing of emojis in sentential intermediate positions