title: An ERP study on the effect of self-relevant possessive pronoun.
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.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Brain, Self and Society, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, PR China.
authors.forename: Aibao
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Zhan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Pengying
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Peiru
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Huifen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Qiong
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Quanshun
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zuo
authors.forename: Ruixue
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Xia
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001931:Brain Mapping; D018913:Event-Related Potentials, P300; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D012649:Self Concept; D012660:Semantics