Motivational priming and processing interrupt: Startle reflex modulation during shallow and deep processing of emotional words

Losing control, literally: Relations between anger control, trait anger, and motor control

“…The positive words were more pleasant than the neutral words (Ms 08.13 & 5.06 for positive & neutral words), F(1, 18) 0630.51, pB.01. In addition, there is evidence for the point that positive words activate the BAS in both psychophysiological and behavioural studies (Herbert & Kissler, 2010;Ode et al, 2012). To ensure that the primes had been encoded and rehearsed, a recognition memory test was conducted at the end of each trial.…”

Affective norms for 380 Spanish words belonging to three different semantic categories

“…Affectively valenced words also seem to capture more attention than their neutral counterparts, as suggested by studies that have used either the emotional Stroop task (Eilola, Havelka, & Sharma, 2007;MacKay & Ahmetzanov, 2005;Sutton & Altarriba, 2008;Sutton, Altarriba, Gianico, & Basnight Brown, 2007), the attentional blink paradigm (Huang, Baddeley, & Young, 2008;Mathewson, Arnell, & Mansfield, 2008), or the Affective Simon task (Altarriba & Basnight-Brown, 2011;De Houwer, 2003;De Houwer, Crombez, Baeyens, & Hermans, 2001). Furthermore, it has consistently been shown that emotional words are better remembered than neutral ones (Altarriba & Bauer, 2004;Brierley, Medford, Shaw, & David, 2007;Buchanan, Etzel, Adolphs, & Tranel, 2006;Ferré, 2003;Ferré, García, Fraga, Sánchez-Casas, & Molero, 2010;Herbert, Junghofer, & Kissler, 2008;Herbert & Kissler, 2010;Kensinger, 2008;Kensinger & Corkin, 2003;Kissler, Herbert, Peyk, & Junghofer, 2007). Finally, the difference between neutral and emotionally charged words has been observed not only with behavioural measures, but also in several studies that have tested whether emotional words are distinguishable from neutral ones in terms of the pattern of neural activation that they produce.…”

Emotionally negative pictures increase attention to a subsequent auditory stimulus

“…Previous work in this area has shown that emotional stimuli will prime subsequent responses in a different sensory modality since stimuli in the same sensory modality are competing for limited processing resources (reviewed in Schupp et al, 2006). For example, cross modal studies show that emotional stimuli facilitate lexical decisions (Kissler and Koessler, 2011; but see Ihssen et al, 2007), enhance free recall (Herbert and Kissler, 2010), reduce response times (Scott et al, 2009;De Houwer et al, 2002;Jiang et al, 2007), improve identification of visual targets (Brosch et al, 2007(Brosch et al, , 2008Zeelenberg and Bocanegra, 2010; but see Weinberg and Hajcak, 2011), potentiate startle responses (Herbert and Kissler, 2010;reviewed in Lang et al, 1997b), augment the P1 ERP component during visual target detection (Brosch et al, 2009), and enhance touch sensation (Poliakoff et al, 2007). The motivational priming hypothesis expounded by Lang et al (1997b) particularly posits that priming will occur when there is a link or association with the emotional activation network.…”