Cross-modal evaluative priming: Emotional sounds influence the processing of emotion words.

Scherer, Laura D.; Larsen, Randy J.

doi:10.1037/a0022588

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“…However, the cross-modal pairwise paradigm is noticeably under-utilised in the aphasic literature. Cross-modal priming is said to occur when the prime and the target are processed via two different modalities (e.g., an auditory prime and a visual target) (Harley, 2013;Scherer & Larsen, 2011). The cross-modal paradigm has been extensively used in the normal language processing literature since Holcomb & Anderson (Holcomb & Anderson, 1993 first contrasted unimodal and cross-modal semantic priming paradigms to investigate whether semantic information was organised along modality-specific lines, according to the input, or whether all modalities converged on a single amodal semantic system.…”

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Semantic priming in anomic aphasia: a focused investigation using cross-modal methodology

Howells

Cardell

2014

Aphasiology

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Background: Semantic priming in individuals with anomic aphasia has never been the primary focus of an investigation. To date, one study investigated the effects of semantic priming in individuals with fluent aphasia (including anomic aphasia), revealing an inconsistency in semantic priming in the anomic group. Parallels from Broca's aphasia and Wernicke's aphasia literature may be drawn. However, due to the heterogeneity of anomic aphasia, a focused investigation was necessary. Aims: Semantic priming effects were investigated using a cross-modal pairwise paradigm. It was hypothesised that participants with anomic aphasia would demonstrate priming patterns at a stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) of 500 ms with slower overall reaction times (RTs) than the control participants. It was further hypothesised that the participants with anomic aphasia might show less inhibition effects than the control participants.Methods & Procedures: Participants with anomic aphasia (n = 11) and healthy control participants (n = 16) completed a lexical decision task where prime-target pairs were present in equal proportions (related, unrelated, and nonwords). A neutral prime condition was also incorporated. Using a cross-modal pairwise paradigm, participants heard a spoken word 500 ms later, a written word appeared on screen (for 4000 ms). Participants were required to make a decision as to whether the written word was real, and RTs were recorded. Outcomes & Results: Linear mixed model analysis was undertaken and revealed no significant two-way interaction effect, indicating both groups showed priming patterns. A main effect of group was evident, showing faster RTs by the control participant group, confirming our hypothesis that people with anomic aphasia primed at an SOA of 500 ms in a similar manner to the control participants, with slower RTs. Conclusions: Semantic priming effects were present in anomic aphasia at relatively short SOAs and may be contributed to by automatic processes. Several parameters are proposed that should be adopted for further investigation into semantic priming in anomic aphasia including electrophysiological measures and manipulation of SOAs and relatedness proportions (RPs) to more precisely measure the effects of controlled versus automatic processes. Such investigation has the potential to inform new assessment and management techniques.

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Semantic priming in anomic aphasia: a focused investigation using cross-modal methodology

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Cardell

2014

Aphasiology

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“…Observing a general, modality-independent influence of an affective context on emotional attention would suggest that contextual influences on emotional attention are much more powerful and general than when they would be limited to an exact overlap of the modality of affective context and emotional input (cf. Scherer and Larsen, 2011). …”

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When does hearing laughter draw attention to happy faces? Task relevance determines the influence of a crossmodal affective context on emotional attention

Dessel¹,

Vogt²

2012

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Prior evidence has shown that a person's affective context influences attention to emotional stimuli. The present study investigated whether a crossmodal affective context that is induced by remembering an emotional sound modulates attention to visual emotional stimuli. One group of participants had to remember a positive, negative, or neutral sound during each trial of a dot probe paradigm. A second group of participants also had to encode the valence of the sound. The results revealed that attention was preferentially deployed to stimuli that were emotionally congruent to the affective context. However, this effect was only evident when participants had to encode the valence of the affective context. These findings suggest that a crossmodal affective context modulates the deployment of attention to emotional stimuli provided that the affective connotation of the context is task-relevant.

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“…Moreover, the crossmodal priming approach may be closer to real-life emotional processing in a multisensory context, with the potential to answer questions that lie at the heart of basic research on emotion (Marin & Bhattacharya, 2011). For instance, crossmodal emotional priming has been used to examine how emotional sounds influence the processing of emotional words (Scherer & Larsen, 2011) or how odors affect the processing of faces and words (Li, Moallem, Paller, & Gottfried, 2007).…”

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Crossmodal transfer of arousal, but not pleasantness, from the musical to the visual domain.

Marin

Gingras²,

Bhattacharya³

2012

Emotion

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Arousal and valence (pleasantness) are considered primary dimensions of emotion. However, the degree to which these dimensions interact in emotional processing across sensory modalities is poorly understood. We addressed this issue by applying a crossmodal priming paradigm in which auditory primes (Romantic piano solo music) varying in arousal and/or pleasantness were sequentially paired with visual targets (IAPS pictures). In Experiment 1, the emotion spaces of 120 primes and 120 targets were explored separately in addition to the effects of musical training and gender. Thirty-two participants rated their felt pleasantness and arousal in response to primes and targets on equivalent rating scales as well as their familiarity with the stimuli. Musical training was associated with elevated familiarity ratings for high-arousing music and a trend for elevated arousal ratings, especially in response to unpleasant musical stimuli. Males reported higher arousal than females for pleasant visual stimuli. In Experiment 2, 40 nonmusicians rated their felt arousal and pleasantness in response to 20 visual targets after listening to 80 musical primes. Arousal associated with the musical primes modulated felt arousal in response to visual targets, yet no such transfer of pleasantness was observed between the two modalities. Experiment 3 sought to rule out the possibility of any order effect of the subjective ratings, and responses of 14 nonmusicians replicated results of Experiment 2. This study demonstrates the effectiveness of the crossmodal priming paradigm in basic research on musical emotions.

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Cross-modal evaluative priming: Emotional sounds influence the processing of emotion words.

Cited by 28 publications

References 25 publications

Semantic priming in anomic aphasia: a focused investigation using cross-modal methodology

Semantic priming in anomic aphasia: a focused investigation using cross-modal methodology

When does hearing laughter draw attention to happy faces? Task relevance determines the influence of a crossmodal affective context on emotional attention

Crossmodal transfer of arousal, but not pleasantness, from the musical to the visual domain.

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