Laterality, word valence, and visual attention: a comparison of depressed and non-depressed individuals

Kakolewski, Kirsten; Crowson, J. Jeffrey; Sewell, Kenneth W.; Cromwell, Rue L.

doi:10.1016/s0167-8760(99)00085-9

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“…Across multiple early-and late-dependent measures, readers were able to process positive emotion words with greater ease than neutral words. These findings are consistent with previous research that shows that emotional words impact response times in cognitive tasks and are processed more quickly than neutral words (Kakolewski et al, 1999;Kanske & Kotz, 2007;Kousta et al, 2009;Kuchinke et al, 2007;Schacht & Sommer, 2009). Specifically, the current study supported the motivated attention and affective states (Lang et al, 1990(Lang et al, , 1997 proposed by Kousta et al (2009).…”

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“…Several studies have reported significant levels of interference where reactions have increased due to the target being an emotion word. When considering the reading and processing of isolated word stimuli, the findings from several paradigms suggest a processing advantage for positive words (i.e., those with high arousal and high valence) over neutral words (Kakolewski, Crowson Jr., Sewell, & Cromwell, 1999;Kanske & Kotz, 2007;Kuchinke, Võ, Hofmann, & Jacobs, 2007;Schacht & Sommer, 2009;Scott, O'Donnell, Leuthold, & Sereno, 2009), as well as for negative words (i.e., those with high arousal and low valence) over neutral words (Kanske & Kotz, 2007;Kousta, Vinson, & Vigliocco, 2009;Nakic, Smith, Busis, Vythilingam, & Blair, 2006;Schacht & Sommer, 2009;Tabert et al, 2001;Windmann, Daum, & Güntürkün, 2002).…”

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Emotion effects during reading: Influence of an emotion target word on eye movements and processing

Knickerbocker

Johnson

Altarriba

2014

Cognition and Emotion

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Recently, Scott, O'Donnell and Sereno reported that words of high valence and arousal are processed with greater ease than neutral words during sentence reading. However, this study unsystematically intermixed emotion (label a state of mind, e.g., terrified or happy) and emotion-laden words (refer to a concept that is associated with an emotional state, e.g., debt or marriage). We compared the eye-movement record while participants read sentences that contained a neutral target word (e.g., chair) or an emotion word (no emotion-laden words were included). Readers were able to process both positive (e.g., happy) and negative emotion words (e.g., distressed) faster than neutral words. This was true across a wide range of early (e.g., first fixation durations) and late (e.g., total times on the post-target region) measures. Additional analyses revealed that State Trait Anxiety Inventory scores interacted with the emotion effect and that the emotion effect was not due to arousal alone.

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Emotion effects during reading: Influence of an emotion target word on eye movements and processing

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Johnson

Altarriba

2014

Cognition and Emotion

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“…This may account for the mixed results on affective word processing. In the emotion word literature, some studies demonstrate a processing advantage for positive over neutral words (e.g., [39]–[42]), some show an advantage for negative over neutral words (e.g., [17], [41], [43]), and others observe an advantage for positive over negative words (e.g., [44]–[46]). Such variability could potentially be due to differences in the ratio of intrinsically and extrinsically emotional words presented.…”

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Semantic Size of Abstract Concepts: It Gets Emotional When You Can’t See It

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Size is an important visuo-spatial characteristic of the physical world. In language processing, previous research has demonstrated a processing advantage for words denoting semantically “big” (e.g., jungle) versus “small” (e.g., needle) concrete objects. We investigated whether semantic size plays a role in the recognition of words expressing abstract concepts (e.g., truth). Semantically “big” and “small” concrete and abstract words were presented in a lexical decision task. Responses to “big” words, regardless of their concreteness, were faster than those to “small” words. Critically, we explored the relationship between semantic size and affective characteristics of words as well as their influence on lexical access. Although a word’s semantic size was correlated with its emotional arousal, the temporal locus of arousal effects may depend on the level of concreteness. That is, arousal seemed to have an earlier (lexical) effect on abstract words, but a later (post-lexical) effect on concrete words. Our findings provide novel insights into the semantic representations of size in abstract concepts and highlight that affective attributes of words may not always index lexical access.

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“…A structural MPRAGE scan was obtained at each session. Six functional scans were acquired during three different affective tasks that consisted of implicit processing of emotional cues (faces) (43), processing of emotion cues (words) in the attentional background (44)(45)(46), and processing of emotional cues (pictures) in the attentional foreground (47) (two scans each: 99-106 images per scan, 620 images per week). The duration of each functional imaging session was 31 minutes, 24 seconds.…”

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Partial Amelioration of Medial Visceromotor Network Dysfunction in Major Depression by Sertraline

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Wager

Mercado

et al. 2015

Psychosomatic Medicine

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Laterality, word valence, and visual attention: a comparison of depressed and non-depressed individuals

Cited by 15 publications

References 28 publications

Emotion effects during reading: Influence of an emotion target word on eye movements and processing

Emotion effects during reading: Influence of an emotion target word on eye movements and processing

Semantic Size of Abstract Concepts: It Gets Emotional When You Can’t See It

Partial Amelioration of Medial Visceromotor Network Dysfunction in Major Depression by Sertraline

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