The influence of emotional orthographic neighbourhood in visual word recognition

Gobin, Paméla; Mathey, Stéphanie

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“…To go further, our results suggest that the valence and arousal dimensions of co-activated orthographically similar word representations also intervene in modulating the influence of the neighbor on stimulus word recognition in the LDT. Gobin and Mathey (2010) initially interpreted the emotional orthographic neighborhood effect within an IA model extended to affective processing. According to the present study, it seems necessary to assume that both the valence and the arousal dimensions of the words should be distinguished in the affective system.…”

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“…This account is also consistent with the main effect of arousal we found in the analysis of control variables, showing that word response times decreased when word arousal increased. In an IA model extended to affective processing (Gobin & Mathey, 2010), processing high-arousal negative neighbors could lead to a boost in the participant's response in the LDT. To summarize, we assume that the emotional orthographic neighbor could intervene differently in lexical or attentional processes and in the motor preparation of responses according to its arousal level.…”

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“…More recently, a growing number of studies have indicated that the emotional characteristics of words also influence the lexical processes involved in their visual recognition (e.g., Hofmann et al, 2009; Kuperman et al, 2014; Recio et al, 2014; Sutton & Altarriba, 2008). A few studies have even provided evidence that visual recognition of a given neutral word is influenced by the emotional characteristics of orthographically similar words (e.g., Gobin & Mathey, 2010) and might also depend on the participants’ emotional traits (Camblats & Mathey, 2016). This latter issue is of particular importance in shedding more light on how both lexico-emotional factors and individual affective factors might contribute to visual word recognition.…”

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“…The question of the influence of the emotional characteristics of orthographically similar word representations on stimulus word processing was first investigated in primed lexical decision task (LDT) experiments (Gobin & Mathey, 2010). Neutral words, with one higher frequency orthographic neighbor by letter substitution (i.e., words with one letter changed while maintaining letter positions), which was either emotionally negative (e.g., menace [threat] for tenace [tenacious] ) or neutral (e.g., museau [muzzle] for fuseau [spindle] ), were used as targets.…”

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“…The results showed an inhibitory emotional orthographic neighborhood effect, with longer reaction times (RTs) for words with a negative orthographic neighbor than for those with a neutral one, regardless of the prime type (see also Faïta-Ainseba et al, 2012; Gobin et al, 2012). This effect was interpreted within an interactive activation (IA) model of visual word recognition (McClelland & Rumelhart, 1981) adapted to affective processing (Gobin & Mathey, 2010; see also Ferrand et al, 2006, for a similar proposal in a dual-route model). The originality of Gobin and Mathey’s (2010) proposal is that it incorporates an affective system which may be activated during the processing of emotional words and emotional neighbors.…”

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This study investigated whether the visual recognition of neutral words might be influenced by the emotional dimensions (i.e., valence and arousal) of orthographically similar lexical representations, and whether this might also depend on emotional-related traits of participants (i.e., alexithymia). To this end, 108 participants performed a lexical decision task with 80 neutral words with a higher frequency orthographic neighbor that varied in valence (from neutral to negative) and arousal (from low to high). The main finding was the expected interaction effect between the valence and arousal of the neighbor on the lexical decision times of neutral stimulus words. Longer reaction times were found when the valence score of the neighbor decreased from neutral to negative for words with a low-arousal orthographic neighbor while this emotional neighbor effect was reversed for words with a high-arousal negative neighbor. This combined influence of the valence and arousal of the neighbor was interpreted in terms of increased lexical competition processes and direct influence of the affective system on the participant’s response. Moreover, this interaction effect was smaller when the level of alexithymia of the participants increased, suggesting that people with a higher level of alexithymia are less sensitive to the emotional content of the neighbor. The results are discussed within an interactive activation model of visual word recognition incorporating an affective system with valence and arousal dimensions, with regard to the role of the alexithymia level of participants.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%