scholarly journals Does emotional valence modulate word recognition? A behavioral study manipulating frequency and arousal

2022 ◽  
Vol 223 ◽  
pp. 103484
Author(s):  
Catarina I. Barriga-Paulino ◽  
Milene Guerreiro ◽  
Luís Faísca ◽  
Alexandra Reis
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Behavioral Study

Neural evidence of effects of emotional valence on word recognition

2005 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Midori Inaba ◽  
Michio Nomura ◽  
Hideki Ohira
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Emotional Valence

scholarly journals Pupillary responses to affective words in bilinguals' first versus second language

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilhelmiina Toivo ◽  
Christoph Scheepers
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Word Recognition ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Emotional Involvement ◽  
Pupillary Responses ◽  
Emotional Resonance ◽  
Post Trial ◽  
Specific Control ◽  
Late Bilinguals

Late bilinguals often report less emotional involvement in their second language, a phenomenon called reduced emotional resonance in L2. The present study measured pupil dilation in response to high- versus low-arousing words (e.g., riot vs. swamp) in German-English and Finnish-English late bilinguals, both in their first and in their second language. A third sample of English monolingual speakers (tested only in English) served as a control group. To improve on previous research, we controlled for lexical confounds such as length, frequency, emotional valence, and abstractness – both within and across languages. Results showed no appreciable differences in post-trial word recognition judgements (98% recognition on average), but reliably stronger pupillary effects of the arousal manipulation when stimuli were presented in participants' first rather than second language. This supports the notion of reduced emotional resonance in L2. Our findings are unlikely to be due to differences in stimulus-specific control variables or to potential word-recognition difficulties in participants' second language. Linguistic relatedness between first and second language (German-English vs. Finnish-English) was also not found to have a modulating influence.

scholarly journals Arousal and emotional valence interact in written word recognition

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (10) ◽  
pp. 1257-1267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca M.M. Citron ◽  
Brendan S. Weekes ◽  
Evelyn C. Ferstl
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Written Word

scholarly journals The influence of emotional valence on word recognition in people with aphasia

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (8) ◽  
pp. 1064-1072
Author(s):  
Caroline Newton ◽  
Helena Thornley ◽  
Carolyn Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Emotional Valence

False memory in aging: Effects of emotional valence on word recognition accuracy.

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Piguet ◽  
Emily Connally ◽  
Anne C. Krendl ◽  
Jessica R. Huot ◽  
Suzanne Corkin
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
False Memory ◽  
Recognition Accuracy ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Aging Effects

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF AGE AND EMOTIONAL VALENCE IN WORD RECOGNITION: AN EX-GAUSSIAN ANALYSIS

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amparo MORENO-CID ◽  
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Carmen MORET-TATAY ◽  
Tatiana Quarti IRIGARAY ◽  
Irani I. L. ARGIMON ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Gaussian Analysis

scholarly journals How are affective word ratings related to lexicosemantic properties? Evidence from the Sussex Affective Word List

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANCESCA M. M. CITRON ◽  
BRENDAN S. WEEKES ◽  
EVELYN C. FERSTL
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Recognition Performance ◽  
Word List ◽  
Age Of Acquisition ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Native English Speakers ◽  
Verbal Material ◽  
Cognitive Tasks ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Affective Word

ABSTRACTEmotional content of verbal material affects the speed of visual word recognition in various cognitive tasks, independently of lexicosemantic variables. However, little is known about how the dimensions of emotional arousal and valence interact with the lexicosemantic properties of words such as age of acquisition, familiarity, and imageability, that determine word recognition performance. This study aimed to examine these relationships using English ratings for affective and lexicosemantic features. Eighty-two native English speakers rated 300 words for emotional valence, arousal, familiarity, age of acquisition, and imageability. Although both dimensions of emotion were correlated with lexicosemantic variables, a unique emotion cluster produced the strongest quadratic relationship. This finding suggests that emotion should be included in models of word recognition as it is likely to make an independent contribution.

scholarly journals Meditation affects word recognition of meditation novices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Lusnig ◽  
Ralph Radach ◽  
Markus J. Hofmann
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Mindfulness Meditation ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Attentional Focus ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Affective Valence ◽  
Loving Kindness

AbstractThis work represents one of the first attempts to examine the effects of meditation on the processing of written single words. In the present longitudinal study, participants conducted a lexical decision task and rated the affective valence of nouns before and after a 7-week class in mindfulness meditation, loving-kindness meditation, or a control intervention. Both meditation groups rated the emotional valence of nouns more neutral after the interventions, suggesting a general down-regulation of emotions. In the loving-kindness group, positive words were rated more positively after the intervention, suggesting a specific intensification of positive feelings. After both meditation interventions, response times in the lexical decision task accelerated significantly, with the largest facilitation occurring in the loving-kindness group. We assume that meditation might have led to increased attention, better visual discrimination, a broadened attentional focus, and reduced mind-wandering, which in turn enabled accelerated word recognition. These results extend findings from a previous study with expert Zen meditators, in which we found that one session of advanced meditation can affect word recognition in a very similar way.

scholarly journals Emotional Valence and Arousal Affect Word Recognition in an Interactive Way: Neural Evidence for an Integrated Approach- Withdrawal Framework

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 156-157
Author(s):  
Francesca Citron ◽  
Marcus Gray ◽  
Hugo Critchley ◽  
Brendan Weekes ◽  
Evelyn Ferstl
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Valence And Arousal

Effects of Phonological Decoding Training on Children's Word Recognition of CVC, CV, and VC Structures

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenyatta O. Rivers ◽  
Linda J. Lombardino ◽  
Cynthia K. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Multiple Baseline ◽  
Single Subject ◽  
Group Training ◽  
Complex Structures ◽  
Multiple Baseline Design ◽  
Baseline Design ◽  
Phonological Decoding ◽  
The Third ◽  
Letter Sound

The effects of training in letter-sound correspondences and phonemic decoding (segmenting and blending skills) on three kindergartners' word recognition abilities were examined using a single-subject multiple-baseline design across behaviors and subjects. Whereas CVC pseudowords were trained, generalization to untrained CVC pseudowords, untrained CVC real words, untrained CV and VC pseudowords, and untrained CV and VC real words were assessed. Generalization occurred to all of the untrained constructions for two of the three subjects. The third subject did not show the same degree of generalization to VC pseudowords and real words; however, after three training sessions, this subject read all VC constructions with 100% accuracy. Findings are consistent with group training studies that have shown the benefits of decoding training on word recognition and spelling skills and with studies that have demonstrated the effects of generalization to less complex structures when more complex structures are trained.

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