Brain Mechanisms of Lexicality in Bilingual Emotion Processing
Cheng Xiao, Jiang Liu, Yuqi Zhang, Wanzhi Lyu, Rutvik H. Desai, Ma Feilong
This study uses fMRI to compare how native speakers and L2 learners process emotional prosody in real words vs. pseudowords, finding distinct brain activation patterns based on lexicality.
bioRxiv · Sep 22, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience