Adaptive Language Control in Non-emotional and Emotional Contexts ——Evidence from Sentence Production

The current dataset relates to the manuscript titled "Adaptive Language Control in Non-emotional and Emotional Contexts ——Evidence from Sentence Production" which investigated adaptive language control across different language contexts and emotional states using constrained sentence production tasks. Two groups of Chinese English learners were assigned to cued and voluntary groups, respectively, and completed single-language and inter-sentential language switching tasks under neutral, positive, and negative emotional states. The results showed that, under neutral condition, nonswitch trials in the voluntary language switching block elicited significantly longer reaction times than single-language trials, indicating a voluntary mixing cost. Negative emotion significantly increased reaction times on single-language trials but did not significantly affect reaction times on voluntary nonswitch trials. These findings suggest that the gradient of control demands observed in single-word production cannot be simply generalized to sentence production, and that the processing level may constitute an important boundary condition for adaptive language control. Moreover, compensatory resource recruitment in the face of emotional interference may be dynamically triggered according to the control demands imposed by different language contexts.