Mood Shapes Reliance on Syntactic and Semantic Cues in Sentence Comprehension.

Xinmiao Liu, Shengqi Wu, Xiaoli Wang

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Xinmiao LiuNational Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing 100089, China.

Shengqi WuSchool of English for Specific Purposes, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing 100089, China.

Xiaoli WangSchool of Foreign Languages, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China.

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Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities 2021JJ024National Social Science Major Bidding Project of China 22&ZD298

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Abstract

The linguistic system relies on both syntactic and semantic cues to derive the meaning of sentences. Although this process is shaped by cognitive factors, little is known about how mood influences reliance on these cues and whether such effects are moderated by cognitive control. This study examined how positive and negative mood influence the use of syntactic and semantic information and whether inhibitory control and working memory moderate these effects. A sentence judgement task was administered among participants with high and low valence. The semantic plausibility and syntactic consistency of the experimental stimuli were manipulated. The results revealed a significant interaction between syntactic consistency and semantic plausibility in negative moods. In positive moods, cue use was more independent. Inhibitory control was found to influence the interaction between syntactic consistency and semantic plausibility in negative moods but not in positive moods. Working memory had no significant influence on syntactic consistency or plausibility in either mood condition. These findings provide valuable insights into the interplay between affect and cognition in shaping sentence comprehension.

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moodsemanticssentence comprehensionsyntax

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PMID41301395

DOI10.3390/bs15111591

PMCPMC12649602

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