Turning the negative into something positive: Investigating emotion word processing in the negative priming paradigm

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina M. Sutton ◽  
Jeanette Altarriba
Keyword(s):  
Negative Priming ◽  
Word Processing ◽  
Emotion Word ◽  
Priming Paradigm

scholarly journals Exploring Affective Priming Effect of Emotion-Label Words and Emotion-Laden Words: An Event-Related Potential Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 553
Author(s):  
Chenggang Wu ◽  
Juan Zhang ◽  
Zhen Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Word Processing ◽  
Priming Effect ◽  
Word Type ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Affective Priming ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Emotion Word ◽  
Priming Paradigm ◽  
Emotion Label ◽  
Target Words

In order to explore the affective priming effect of emotion-label words and emotion-laden words, the current study used unmasked (Experiment 1) and masked (Experiment 2) priming paradigm by including emotion-label words (e.g., sadness, anger) and emotion-laden words (e.g., death, gift) as primes and examined how the two kinds of words acted upon the processing of the target words (all emotion-laden words). Participants were instructed to decide the valence of target words, and their electroencephalogram was recorded at the same time. The behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) results showed that positive words produced a priming effect whereas negative words inhibited target word processing (Experiment 1). In Experiment 2, the inhibition effect of negative emotion-label words on emotion word recognition was found in both behavioral and ERP results, suggesting that modulation of emotion word type on emotion word processing could be observed even in the masked priming paradigm. The two experiments further supported the necessity of defining emotion words under an emotion word type perspective. The implications of the findings are proffered. Specifically, a clear understanding of emotion-label words and emotion-laden words can improve the effectiveness of emotional communications in clinical settings. Theoretically, the emotion word type perspective awaits further explorations and is still at its infancy.

scholarly journals Emotion word processing: does mood make a difference?

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara C. Sereno ◽  
Graham G. Scott ◽  
Bo Yao ◽  
Elske J. Thaden ◽  
Patrick J. O'Donnell
Keyword(s):  
Word Processing ◽  
Emotion Word

scholarly journals Left Amygdala Regulates the Cerebral Reading Network During Fast Emotion Word Processing

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimihiro Nakamura ◽  
Tomoe Inomata ◽  
Akira Uno
Keyword(s):  
Word Processing ◽  
Emotion Word

COGNITIVE INHIBITION IN OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER: APPLICATION OF A VALENCE-BASED NEGATIVE PRIMING PARADIGM

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. McNally ◽  
Sabine Wilhelm ◽  
Ulrike Buhlmann ◽  
Lisa M. Shin
Keyword(s):  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Negative Priming ◽  
Stimulus Onset ◽  
Cognitive Inhibition ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Inhibitory Deficits ◽  
Priming Paradigm ◽  
Healthy Control

We used a negative priming paradigm to test for deficits in cognitive inhibition in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and to examine whether they exhibit greater inhibitory deficits when lexical targets are threat-related than when they are neutral. The results indicated that OCD patients, relative to healthy control participants, exhibited only marginally significant (p < .10) deficits in negative priming at short (100 ms), but not long (500 ms), stimulus onset asynchronies. There was no evidence that OCD patients exhibited disproportionate difficulty inhibiting negative words, nor was there any evidence that negative priming deficits differed between OCD checkers and OCD noncheckers.

scholarly journals The negative priming paradigm: An update and implications for selective attention

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 1577-1597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Frings ◽  
Katja Kerstin Schneider ◽  
Elaine Fox
Keyword(s):  
Selective Attention ◽  
Negative Priming ◽  
Priming Paradigm

Impaired distractor inhibition on a selective attention task in unmedicated, depressed subjects

2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 557-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. M. MacQUEEN ◽  
S. P. TIPPER ◽  
L. T. YOUNG ◽  
R. T. JOFFE ◽  
A. J. LEVITT
Keyword(s):  
Selective Attention ◽  
Negative Priming ◽  
Unipolar Depression ◽  
Visual Stream ◽  
Attention Task ◽  
Distractor Inhibition ◽  
Priming Task ◽  
Priming Paradigm ◽  
Selective Attention Deficits ◽  
Processing Colour

Background. Impaired distractor inhibition may contribute to the selective attention deficits observed in depressed patients, but studies to date have not tested the distractor inhibition theory against the possibility that processes such as transient memory review processes may account for the observed deficits. A negative priming paradigm can dissociate inhibition from such a potentially confounding process called object review. The negative priming task also isolates features of the distractor such as colour and location for independent examination.Method. A computerized negative priming task was used in which colour, identification and location features of a stimulus and distractor were systematically manipulated across successive prime and probe trials. Thirty-two unmedicated subjects with DSM-IV diagnoses of non-psychotic unipolar depression were compared with 32 age, sex and IQ matched controls.Results. Depressed subjects had reduced levels of negative priming for conditions where the colour feature of the stimulus was repeated across prime and probe trials but not when identity or location was the repeated feature. When both the colour and location feature were the repeated feature across trials, facilitation in response was apparent.Conclusions. The pattern of results supports studies that found reduced distractor inhibition in depressed subjects, and suggests that object review is intact in these subjects. Greater impairment in negative priming for colour versus location suggests that subjects may have greater impairment in the visual stream associated with processing colour features.

On distractor-repetition benefits in the negative-priming paradigm

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Frings ◽  
Peter Wühr
Keyword(s):  
Negative Priming ◽  
Priming Paradigm

scholarly journals Adolescents and adults need inhibitory control to compare fractions

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 314-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandrine Rossi ◽  
Julie Vidal ◽  
Marie Letang ◽  
Olivier Houdé ◽  
Grégoire Borst
Keyword(s):  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Negative Priming ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Priming Paradigm ◽  
Whole Number ◽  
Adolescents And Adults ◽  
Common Components

For children, adolescents and educated adults, comparing fractions with common numerators (e.g., 4/5 vs. 4/9) is more challenging than comparing fractions with common denominators (e.g., 3/4 vs. 6/4) or fractions with no common components (e.g., 5/7 vs. 6/2). Errors are related to the tendency to rely on the “greater the whole number, the greater the fraction” strategy, according to which 4/9 seems larger than 4/5 because 9 is larger than 5. We aimed to determine whether the ability of adolescents and educated adults to compare fractions with common numerators was rooted in part in their ability to inhibit the use of this misleading strategy by adapting the negative priming paradigm. We found that participants were slower to compare the magnitude of two fractions with common denominators after they compared the magnitude of two fractions with common numerators than after they decided which of two fractions possessed a denominator larger than the numerator. The negative priming effects reported suggest that inhibitory control is needed at all ages to avoid errors when comparing fractions with common numerators.

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