Emotional influences on semantic priming

Hänze, Martin; Hesse, Friedrich W.

doi:10.1080/02699939308409184

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“…We argue that this phasic affective modulation took place because the sounds worked as brief affect inductions, with positive compared to negative affect increasing the extent to which semantic activation propagated from a prime to related concepts, such as in tonic affective modulation of semantic spread (e.g., Ashby et al, 1999;Hänze & Hesse, 1993;Storbeck & Clore, 2005). Because particularly indirect priming depends on remote semantic spread (Balota & Lorch, 1986;Baumann & Kuhl, 2002), positive compared to negative brief affect particularly increased the amount of indirect priming.…”

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Phasic affective modulation of semantic priming.

Topolinski

Deutsch

2013

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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The present research demonstrates that very brief variations in affect, being around 1 s in length and changing from trial to trial independently from semantic relatedness of primes and targets, modulate the amount of semantic priming. Implementing consonant and dissonant chords (Experiments 1 and 5), naturalistic sounds (Experiment 2), and visual facial primes (Experiment 3) in an (in)direct semantic priming paradigm, as well as brief facial feedback in a summative priming paradigm (Experiment 4), yielded increased priming effects under brief positive compared to negative affect. Furthermore, this modulation took place on the level of semantic spreading rather than on strategic mechanisms (Experiment 5). Alternative explanations such as distraction, motivation, arousal, and cognitive tuning could be ruled out. This phasic affective modulation constitutes a mechanism overlooked thus far that may contaminate priming effects in all priming paradigms that involve affective stimuli. Furthermore, this mechanism provides a novel explanation for the observation that priming effects are usually larger for positive than for negative stimuli. Finally, it has important implications for linguistic research, by suggesting that association norms may be biased for affective words.

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Phasic affective modulation of semantic priming.

Topolinski

Deutsch

2013

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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“…Thereby, it was proposed that the influence of emotional nodes is restricted to the retrieval of episodic memory events [Macleod, 1987]. Nevertheless, other studies revealed that there were facilitative effects of mood induction on lexical decisions [Haenze and Hesse, 1993;Hesse and Spies, 1996], weaker or no effects of affective information in comparison to semantic informatzion [Kemp-Wheeler and Hill, 1992;Matthews and Southall, 1991;Siegle et al, 2002], greater priming effects for negative emotional information [Matthews et al, 1995;Windmann et al, 2002], or greater effect for positive emotional information [Rossell et al, 2000]. To conclude, the existing behavioral studies revealed heterogeneous results but they also showed that emotional valence does have a specific influence on semantic processing.…”

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The influence of emotional associations on the neural correlates of semantic priming

Saß¹,

Habel²,

Sachs³

et al. 2011

Human Brain Mapping

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Emotions influence our everyday life in several ways. With the present study, we wanted to examine the impact of emotional information on neural correlates of semantic priming, a well-established technique to investigate semantic processing. Stimuli were presented with a short SOA of 200 ms as subjects performed a lexical decision task during fMRI measurement. Seven experimental conditions were compared: positive/negative/neutral related, positive/negative/neutral unrelated, nonwords (all words were nouns). Behavioral data revealed a valence specific semantic priming effect (i.e., unrelated > related) only for neutral and positive related word pairs. On a neural level, the comparison of emotional over neutral relations showed activation in left anterior medial frontal cortex, superior frontal gyrus, and posterior cingulate. Interactions for the different relations were located in left anterior part of the medial frontal cortex, cingulate regions, and right hippocampus ( positive > neutral + negative) and left posterior part of medial frontal cortex (negative > neutral + positive). The results showed that emotional information have an influence on semantic association processes. While positive and neutral information seem to share a semantic network, negative relations might induce compensatory mechanisms that inhibit the spread of activation between related concepts. The neural correlates highlighted a distributed neural network, primarily involving attention, memory and emotion related processing areas in medial fronto-parietal cortices. The differentiation between anterior (positive) and posterior part (negative) of the medial frontal cortex was linked to the type of affective manipulation with more cognitive demands being involved in the automatic processing of negative information

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“…(1998: 432) The central idea is that consciousness is an "anticipation" of a possible input. This point is illustrated by the experience of subjects in perceptual experiments who are instructed to imagine an object prior to its appearance on a screen, or to continue looking for the object while other objects are being flashed intermittently: consistently, the result is that the subjects perceive the object more readily when they are looking for it (Corbetta et al, 1990;Pardo et al, 1990;Logan, 1980;Hanze and Hesse, 1993;Legrenzi et al, 1993;Rhodes and Tremewan, 1993;Lavy and van den Hout, 1994). To imagine an object is to be "on the lookout" for it.…”

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Phenomenology-Friendly Neuroscience: The Return To Merleau-Ponty As Psychologist

Ellis

2006

Hum Stud

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This paper reports on the Kuhnian revolution now occurring in neuropsychology that is finally supportive of and friendly to phenomenology -the "enactive" approach to the mindbody relation, grounded in the notion of self-organization, which is consistent with Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on virtually every point. According to the enactive approach, human minds understand the world by virtue of the ways our bodies can act relative to it, or the ways we can imagine acting. This requires that action be distinguished from passivity, that the mental be approached from a first person perspective, and that the cognitive capacities of the brain be grounded in the emotional and motivational processes that guide action and anticipate action affordances. It avoids the old intractable problems inherent in the computationalist approaches of twentieth century atomism and radical empiricism, and again allows phenomenology to bridge to neuropsychology in the way Merleau-Ponty was already doing over half a century ago.One of the most striking impressions of an initial reader of Maurice MerleauPonty's early works, Phenomenology of Perception (1941/1962) or The Structure of Behavior (1942Behavior ( /1967) is the careful attention both books give to neurophysiological and empirical psychological detail. Indeed, a glance at the reference list of the books just mentioned reveals that both cite considerably more physiology and psychology than they do philosophy. Yet philosophical commentators have tended to neglect Merleau-Ponty's emphasis on psychology, especially neuropsychology, while neuroscientists until very recently had tended to be unaware of Merleau-Ponty's important contributions to their own field.In fact, this neglect of Merleau-Ponty in neuropsychology was due to a philosophical trend: both psychology and philosophy of mind after Merleau-Ponty's death became inclined to the view that mental processes are reducible to lower-level mechanistic processes, without reference to the self-organizational dimension stressed by Merleau-Ponty, and seemingly almost to the exclusion of phenomenology altogether. But the good news is that neuroscience is now swinging back the other way, and is again becoming phenomenology-friendly. Neuropsychologists during the past decade have rediscovered the importance of self-organization and self-energized movement in biology, and the philosophy of mind has again begun to recognize

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Emotional influences on semantic priming

Cited by 45 publications

References 20 publications

Phasic affective modulation of semantic priming.

Phasic affective modulation of semantic priming.

The influence of emotional associations on the neural correlates of semantic priming

Phenomenology-Friendly Neuroscience: The Return To Merleau-Ponty As Psychologist

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