The N400 reveals implicit accent-induced prejudice
| Autor: | Emmanuel Ferragne, Maud Pélissier |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Linguistics and Language
Cliché Communication media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics N400 Computer Science Applications 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Eeg data Modeling and Simulation Perception Stress (linguistics) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Prejudice Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Software media_common Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Speech Communication. 137:114-126 |
| ISSN: | 0167-6393 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.specom.2021.10.004 |
| Popis: | Our perception of someone's accent influences our expectations about what they might say or do. In this experiment, EEG data were recorded while participants listened to cliche sentences matching or not the stereotypes associated with the speaker's accent (upper-class Parisian accent or banlieue accent, a negatively connoted accent associated with youth from suburban areas; e.g. “I always listen to rap in my car” said with a banlieue accent (congruent) or an upper-class accent (incongruent)). Mismatches between social accent and stereotypical content triggered an event-related potential (ERP) known as the N400, albeit more anterior than the one observed for semantic violations, as well as a P3. These results are in line with other studies – conducted in particular with gender stereotypes – suggesting that stereotypes are stored in semantic categorical knowledge and that mismatches trigger integration difficulties and checking and updating mechanisms, and extend them to socially marked accents. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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