Xiaoguang Li’s research while affiliated with Anhui Polytechnic University and other places

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Experimental paradigm of experiment 1.
Grand average event-related potential (ERP) waveforms recorded at the 9 chosen electrodes of Chinese pairs.
Experimental paradigm of experiment 2.
Grand average ERP waveforms recorded at the nine chosen electrodes of English pairs.
Grand average ERP waveforms recorded at the Pz electrodes of four conditions

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Comprehending scientific metaphors in the bilingual brain: Evidence from event-related potentials
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December 2022

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Lexian Shen

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Xiaoguang Li

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Shaojuan Huang

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While the processing mechanisms of novel and conventional metaphors were widely investigated in previous monolingual studies, little attention has been devoted to how metaphoric utterances are processed by the bilingual brain as well as how scientific context might modulate such processes. Using event-related potentials (ERPs), this paper investigates the way in which scientific metaphors are electrophysiologically processed in Chinese (L1) and English (L2), with the aim of investigating the different mechanisms for understanding metaphorical language in first (L1) and second (L2) languages. By time-locking the N400 and later LPC time windows, the research show how meaning integration differs between L1 and L2 at different stages when comprehending figurative language. We found that compared with Chinese scientific metaphors, English scientific metaphors elicited greater N400, smaller late positive component (LPC), and greater late negativity, and English literals elicited greater late negativity. Our findings suggest that the dynamics of processing figurative meaning in bilingual brains over time show a complex pattern, with language, context, inference and salience jointly modulating temporal dynamics and possible cerebral asymmetries, supporting the revised hierarchical model.

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... The lateralized N170 could be attributed to the distinct orthographic information across languages [43]; [44]. As for the N400 component, English exhibits a weaker and/or longer N400 compared to Chinese [33,45]. Chinese-English bilinguals, compared to English monolinguals, demonstrate a reduced N400 response for English word pairs that shared a character in their Chinese translation [46]. ...

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Electrophysiological evidence of lexical processing impacted by foreign language reading anxiety
Comprehending scientific metaphors in the bilingual brain: Evidence from event-related potentials