漢字による感情表現を付加した文を読むときの脳活動 : 機能的MRIを用いた(笑)(涙)の脳活動計測

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In this paper, we describe the brain activity associated with kanji characters expressing emotion, which are places at the end of a sentence. Japanese people use a special kanji character in brackets at the end of sentences in text messages such as those sent through e-mail and messenger tools. Such kanji characters plays a role to expresses the senders emotion (such as fun, laughter, sadness, tears), like emoticons. It is a very simple and effective way to convey the senders emotions and his/her thoughts to the receiver. In this research, we investigate the effects of emotional kanji characters by using an fMRI study. The experimental results show that both the right and left inferior frontal gyrus, which have been implicated on verbal and nonverbal information, were activated. We found that we detect a sentence with an emotional kanji character as the verbal and nonverval information, and a sentence with emotional kanji characters enrich communication between the sender and the reciever.
社団法人電気学会の論文
2009-01-01