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Sami Sulaiman Alsalmi
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2018.05.001
Bristol University, Bristol, UK
Cognitive load (CL) has been shown to induce changes in heart rate (HR) when exposure stimuli are designed as cognitive tasks, such as stroop, chemical equation tasks. The present project examined whether fluctuations in heart rate serve as an efficient indicator of the CL induced by syntactic processing during sentence comprehension “linguistic task”. This was investigated by exposing a female second language user to syntactic violations and well-formed sentences, on the basis that ungrammatical items would create a cognitive overload, leading to an increase in the HR. After examining the participant’s reactions to the two types of sentences, no difference was found in HR recordings between grammatical and ungrammatical conditions. However, the study was subject to limitations, and so further research is necessary to verify these initial results in the future.
cognitive load, heart rate, grammatical, ungrammatical, sentence
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