Effects of positive pictograms and words: An emotional word superiority effect?

Tempel, Katharina; Kuchinke, Lars; Urton, Karolina; Schlochtermeier, Lorna H.; Kappelhoff, Hermann; Jacobs, Arthur

doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2013.05.002

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“…Lang et al, 1993;Schupp et al, 2003). Two recent studies have suggested higher visual complexity of pictorial stimuli to contribute to those differences Tempel et al, 2013). However, using simple line-drawings and only positive and neutral stimuli that were furthermore matched for arousal, these studies seem not fully conclusive.…”

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Affective responses to emotional words are boosted in communicative situations

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Rahman

2015

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Affective responses to emotional words are boosted in communicative situations

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2015

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“…Finally, P3 amplitudes were scored from a centro-parietal cluster of five electrodes (CP1, CP2, P3, Pz, P4). For early (400-650 ms) and late (650-900 ms) portions of the LPP, we used an anterior (F3, Fz, F4, FC1, FC2) and posterior (P3, Pz, P4, PO3, PO4) electrode cluster of five electrodes each, including position and time as a factor (e.g., see Kissler et al, 2009;Schindler, Wegrzyn, Steppacher, & Kissler, 2014;Solomon, DeCicco, & Dennis, 2012;Tempel et al, 2013).…”

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Processing of affective words in adolescent PTSD—Attentional bias toward social threat

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Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with a hypersensitivity to potential threat. This hypersensitivity manifests through differential patterns of emotional information processing and has been demonstrated in behavioral and neurophysiological experimental paradigms. However, the majority of research has been focused on adult patients with PTSD. To examine possible differences in underlying neurophysiological patterns for adolescent patients with PTSD after childhood sexual and/or physical abuse (CSA/CPA), ERP correlates of emotional word processing in 38 healthy participants and 40 adolescent participants with PTSD after experiencing CSA/CPA were studied. The experimental paradigm consisted of a passive reading task with neutral, positive (e.g., paradise), physically threatening (e.g., torment), and socially threatening (i.e., swearing, e.g., son of a bitch) words. A modulation of P3 amplitudes by emotional valence was found, with positive words inducing less elevated amplitudes over both groups. Interestingly, in later processing, the PTSD group showed augmented early late positive potential (LPP) amplitudes for socially threatening stimuli, while there were no modulations within the healthy control group. Also, region‐specific emotional modulations for anterior and posterior electrode clusters were found. For the anterior LPP, highest activations have been found for positive words, while socially and physically threatening words led to strongest modulations in the posterior LPP cluster. There were no modulations by group or emotional valence at the P1 and EPN stage. The findings suggest an enhanced conscious processing of socially threatening words in adolescent patients with PTSD after CSA/CPA, pointing to the importance of a disjoined examination of threat words in emotional processing research.

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“…Indeed, neural responses tend to be more pronounced after viewing pictures than single words (Hinojosa, Carretie, Valcarcel, Mendez-Bertolo, & Pozo, 2009; Kensinger & Schacter, 2006; but see Bayer & Schacht, 2014). One explanation for such outcomes is that pictures are more complex and provide more spatial information relative to words (e.g., Schlochtermeier et al, 2013; Tempel et al, 2013). Given that emotional pictures are more provocative; when older adults study to-be-learned pictures, their JOLs may be higher for positive relative to neutral pictures.…”

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The effects of emotion on younger and older adults’ monitoring of learning

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Age-related differences in memory monitoring appear when people learn emotional words. Namely, younger adults’ judgments of learning (JOLs) are higher for positive than neutral words, whereas older adults’ JOLs do not discriminate between positive versus neutral words. In two experiments, we evaluated whether this age-related difference extends to learning positive versus neutral pictures. We also evaluated the contribution of two dimensions of emotion that may impact younger and older adults’ JOLs: valence and arousal. Younger and older adults studied pictures that were positive or neutral and either high or low in arousal. Participants made immediate JOLs and completed memory tests. In both experiments, the magnitude of older adults’ JOLs was influenced by emotion, and both younger and older adults demonstrated an emotional salience effect on JOLs. As important, the magnitude of participants’ JOLs was influenced by valence, and not arousal. Emotional salience effects were also evident on participants’ free recall, and older adults recalled as many pictures as did younger adults. Taken together, these data suggest that older adults do not have a monitoring deficit when learning positive (vs. neutral) pictures and that emotional salience effects on younger and older adults’ JOLs are produced more by valence than by arousal.

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Effects of positive pictograms and words: An emotional word superiority effect?

Cited by 20 publications

References 45 publications

Affective responses to emotional words are boosted in communicative situations

Affective responses to emotional words are boosted in communicative situations

Processing of affective words in adolescent PTSD—Attentional bias toward social threat

The effects of emotion on younger and older adults’ monitoring of learning

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