Are effects of emotion in single words non-lexical? Evidence from event-related brain potentials

Early lexico-semantic modulation of motor related areas during action and non-action verb processing

“…Post-lexical processing is suggested to be necessary to elicit concreteness effects (West & Holcomb, 2000). Indeed, concreteness is typically found to modulate ERP results from 250 to 300 ms onwards (Barber, Otten, Kousta, & Vigliocco, 2013;Kanske & Kotz, 2007;Palazova, Manthill, Sommer, & Schacht, 2011), just as in the current study. By contrast, sensorimotor and DLPFC activity occurred earlier, at 165 and 228 ms respectively.…”

A familiar font drives early emotional effects in word recognition

“…Emotional modulations of the P1 are repeatedly reported in visual word recognition (Bayer et al, 2012;Ortigue et al, 2004;Palazova, Mantwill, Sommer, & Schacht, 2011;Rellecke, Palazova, Sommer, & Schacht, 2011;Sass et al, 2010;Scott, O'Donnell, Leuthold, & Sereno, 2009) and are also known from picture processing studies (see Olofsson, Nordin, Sequeira, & Polich, 2008). Inconsistencies in the direction of these modulations should be attributed to methodological issues.…”

Emotionality in a second language: It's a matter of time

“…It has been previously argued that the degree of linguistic processing modulates the direction of attention to the affective content during word processing reflected in the EPN (Hinojosa et al, 2010;Kissler et al, 2007;Schacht & Sommer, 2009b). Thus, it could be argued that only minimal linguistic processing as in passive reading tasks will lead to faster lexical access as compared to elaborate lexical-semantic processing required in previous studies using a similar task (Palazova et al, 2011;Schacht & Sommer, 2009a,b). Consequently, the EPN latency will be longer when more elaborate and effortful linguistic processing is required.…”