Left-hemisphere processing of emotional connotation during word generation

Crosson, Bruce; Radonovich, Krestin J.; Sadek, Joseph; Gökçay, Didem; Bauer, Russell M.; Fischler, Ira; Cato, M. Allison; Maron, Leeza; Auerbach, Edward J.; Browd, Samuel R.; Briggs, Richard W.

doi:10.1097/00001756-199908200-00003

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“…The only cluster that showed enhanced activation for both positive and negative over neutral stimuli was located in the left superior frontal gyrus (SFG). This frontal region is related to semantic processing [Demonet et al, 1992;Petersson et al, 2003] and processing of emotional valence during explicit semantic memory tasks [Cato et al, 2004;Crosson et al, 1999] as well as during judgements of emotional responses [Stowe et al, 2004]. According to this study, we suggest that the left SFG supports higher-level semantic processes as well as processing of emotional information.…”

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“…According to earlier studies on emotional word recognition, we hypothesize to find enhanced medial and lateral frontal activation for emotional over neutral stimuli [Crosson et al, 1999[Crosson et al, , 2002Kuchinke et al, 2005] with positive stimuli inducing activation in frontotemporal regions and negative information in fronto-temporal regions and posterior cingulate [Canli et al, 2004;Kuchinke et al, 2005;Mickley and Kensinger, 2008]. Moreover, as the focus of the current study is on non-emotional aspects (i.e., lexical) of the stimuli and we were interested in emotional influence across the whole brain rather than on specific regions, we did not expect activation of the amygdala in line with earlier work on semantic processing [Kuchinke et al, 2005;Liu et al, 2010;Luo et al, 2004].…”

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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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confidence: 52%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 95%

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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“…Semantic processing of words is typically investigated by single word reading or listening (Binder et al, 1996(Binder et al, , 2000Cohen et al, 2002;Fiez et al, 1999;Moore and Price, 1999;Small et al, 1996;Specht and Reul, 2003), semantic categorization judgment (i.e., making a decision whether a presented stimulus is a member of a specific semantic category, such as living versus nonliving, or natural versus artificial (Binder et al, 1996(Binder et al, , 2003Braver and Bongiolatti, 2002;Buchanan et al, 2000;Heim et al, 2002;Noesselt et al, 2003;Poldrack et al, 1999;Scott et al, 2003), semantic association judgments involving words (Adams and Janata, 2002;Booth et al, 2002;Chee et al, 2000;Davis et al, 2004;McDermott et al, 2003;Noppeney and Price, 2004;Vandenberghe et al, 1996) or pictures (Adams and Janata, 2002;Chee et al, 2000;Vandenberghe et al, 1996), word generation Crosson et al, 1999), semantic retrieval (i.e., producing an object property) (Heun et al, 2000;James and Gauthier, 2004;Kelley et al, 2002;Thompson-Schill et al, 1999), and semantic priming (i.e., examining how the exposure to a stimulus influences the semantic processing of a later stimulus) (Kotz et al, 2002;Wagner et al, 2000;Wager and Smith, 2003).…”

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Language Processing, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of

Yang¹,

Small²

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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“…Furthermore, Hamann and Mao [30] found that, compared with neutral words, positive words significantly activated left amygdala. Besides amygdala, the prefrontal cortex and the vicinal limbic system also play an important role in processing affective meaning of words [31,32] . Moreover, Maratos et al [33] found that negative and neutral words elicited different event-related potentials (ERPs) in the left parietal and the right frontal cortex during a recognition memory task.…”

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Neuro-cognitive mechanisms underlying the emotional modulation of word reading

Peng

Liu

et al. 2006

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A novel neural model for emotional modulation of word reading is proposed. This model has four principal hypotheses: the dominant activation region hypothesis, the emotional modulation hypothesis, the attentional level hypothesis, and the interaction hypothesis. Four lines of research were reviewed to provide evidence for these hypotheses: (1) neuro-cognitive studies on the mechanisms of word reading (i.e., neural networks for reading); (2) studies on the influence of words' emotional valence on word reading; (3) studies of the effect of attention on word reading; and (4) studies on emotional modulation of word reading under different attentional levels.Reading refers to the process through which a person extracts and comprehends information from the text. As a basic cognitive activity, reading has been extensively studied by linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists and computer scientists. These researchers have focused on several major scientific questions: How is orthographic, phonological and semantic information of words represented in the human brain? How are these three components of reading integrated? And how can children's reading ability be improved? With advances in modern neuroimaging techniques in the last 20 years, researchers have been able to make rapid progress towards answering these questions about reading.Although much research on the neural mechanisms of reading was conducted under the umbrella of cognitive neuroscience, research from the discipline of affective neuroscience has shown that emotion plays an important role on cognitive processes such as reading.Emotion may serve as a stimulator and an organizer for cognition, behavior, social interaction and development [1] . How emotion influences and interacts with perception, attention, and memory has become a hot topic in recent years and several models have been proposed to delineate the relations between emotion and cognition [1,2] . However, the effect of emotion on reading has not been adequately addressed [3] . The failure to consider emotion is a major limitation of existing models and theories of reading. Consequently, the application of such models in the teaching of reading skills is not likely to yield satisfactory results.To understand the role of emotion in reading, we need to start with its role in the processing of words. Words are a basic unit of language, and their processing lays the foundation for sentence and paragraph comprehension. Since 1983, our research group has carried out a number of studies on word recognition and reading, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and other research foundations. Taking into account the characteristics of Chinese script, these studies focused on Chinese characters. The key questions we addressed include the basic unit in word recognition, the role of word and morpheme in word recognition, the role of pronunciation and phonology in access to word meaning, word learning and children's word development, computer-based simulation of word processing, and brain mechan...

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Left-hemisphere processing of emotional connotation during word generation

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

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