Climate change, vaccines, GMO: The N400 effect as a marker of attitudes toward scientific issues.
While the psychological predictors of antiscience beliefs have been extensively studied, neural underpinnings of the antiscience beliefs have received relatively little interest. The aim of the current study is to investigate whether attitudes towards the scientific issues are reflected in the N400...
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| author | Łukasz Okruszek Aleksandra Piejka Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak Dariusz Jemielniak |
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| description | While the psychological predictors of antiscience beliefs have been extensively studied, neural underpinnings of the antiscience beliefs have received relatively little interest. The aim of the current study is to investigate whether attitudes towards the scientific issues are reflected in the N400 potential. Thirty-one individuals were asked to judge whether six different issues presented as primes (vaccines, medicines, nuclear energy, solar energy, genetically-modified organisms (GMO), natural farming) are well-described by ten positive and ten negative target words. EEG was recorded during the task. Furthermore, participants were asked to rate their own expertise in each of the six topics. Both positive and negative target words related to GMO elicited larger N400, than targets associated with vaccines and natural farming. The results of the current study show that N400 may be an indicator of the ambiguous attitude toward scientific issues. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ee7fb2d1970b42599f16b11e5f59397b2022-12-22T04:32:02ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032022-01-011710e027334610.1371/journal.pone.0273346Climate change, vaccines, GMO: The N400 effect as a marker of attitudes toward scientific issues.Łukasz OkruszekAleksandra PiejkaNatalia Banasik-JemielniakDariusz JemielniakWhile the psychological predictors of antiscience beliefs have been extensively studied, neural underpinnings of the antiscience beliefs have received relatively little interest. The aim of the current study is to investigate whether attitudes towards the scientific issues are reflected in the N400 potential. Thirty-one individuals were asked to judge whether six different issues presented as primes (vaccines, medicines, nuclear energy, solar energy, genetically-modified organisms (GMO), natural farming) are well-described by ten positive and ten negative target words. EEG was recorded during the task. Furthermore, participants were asked to rate their own expertise in each of the six topics. Both positive and negative target words related to GMO elicited larger N400, than targets associated with vaccines and natural farming. The results of the current study show that N400 may be an indicator of the ambiguous attitude toward scientific issues.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273346 |
| spellingShingle | Łukasz Okruszek Aleksandra Piejka Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak Dariusz Jemielniak Climate change, vaccines, GMO: The N400 effect as a marker of attitudes toward scientific issues. PLoS ONE |
| title | Climate change, vaccines, GMO: The N400 effect as a marker of attitudes toward scientific issues. |
| title_full | Climate change, vaccines, GMO: The N400 effect as a marker of attitudes toward scientific issues. |
| title_fullStr | Climate change, vaccines, GMO: The N400 effect as a marker of attitudes toward scientific issues. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Climate change, vaccines, GMO: The N400 effect as a marker of attitudes toward scientific issues. |
| title_short | Climate change, vaccines, GMO: The N400 effect as a marker of attitudes toward scientific issues. |
| title_sort | climate change vaccines gmo the n400 effect as a marker of attitudes toward scientific issues |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273346 |
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