The influence of emotional words on sentence processing: Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence

Martı́n-Loeches, Manuel; Fernández, Ana María González; Schacht, Annekathrin; Sommer, Werner; Casado, Pilar; Jiménez-Ortega, Laura; Fondevila, Sabela

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.09.010

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“…The distribution and the temporal dynamic of this supraliminal anterior negativity supports those observed in classic experiments investigating morphosyntactic violations (e.g., Gunter, Friederici, & Schriefers, 2000;Kutas & Hillyard, 1980; see also Guajardo & Wicha, 2014) and previous research carried out in our laboratory using similar sentences (Hinojosa et al, 2003;Jimenez-Ortega et al, 2012;Martin-Loeches et al, 2012). Furthermore, anterior and central distributions are also commonly reported to morphosyntactic violations and specifically to gender violations (e.g., Barber & Carreiras, 2003Molinaro et al, 2008).…”

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Automaticity of higher cognitive functions: Neurophysiological evidence for unconscious syntactic processing of masked words

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“…[determiner] -[noun] -[adjective] -[verb](Jimenez-Ortega et al, 2012;Martin-Loeches et al, 2012;Martin-Loeches, Sel, Casado, Jimenez, & Castellanos, 2009). However, in the present experiment we inserted a subliminal presentation of the same adjective followed by a mask, between the noun and the adjective in its standard (supraliminal) presentation.…”

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Automaticity of higher cognitive functions: Neurophysiological evidence for unconscious syntactic processing of masked words

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“…These results indicate either more attentional resources allocated to the emotional words or different neural representations between the emotional and neutral words. However, Martín-Loeches et al (2012) and Wang, Bastiaansen, et al (2013) reported no difference in the N400s between negative and neutral words, but smaller N400s for positive words in the neutral sentence contexts. The discrepancies between the present study and the previous studies might be attributed to the different stimuli used in different studies (e.g., Martín-Loeches et al, 2012, used Spanish;Wang, Bastiaansen, et al, 2013, used Dutch; and in the present study we used Chinese stimuli).…”

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The dynamic influence of emotional words on sentence comprehension: An ERP study

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Lin

Yang

2016

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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In the present study, we explored the influence of emotional words on the semantic integration of their following neutral nouns during sentence comprehension. We manipulated the emotionality of verbs and the semantic congruity of their following (neutral) object nouns in sentences. Eventrelated potentials were recorded to the verbs, which were either negative or neutral, and to the object nouns, which were either semantically congruent or incongruent relative to the preceding contexts. We found an N400 and a P600 effect in response to the semantic congruity of the nouns when they followed the neutral verbs. However, the P600 (but not the N400) semantic congruity effect may have been attenuated when the nouns followed the negative verbs. Meanwhile, the negative verbs elicited a larger P2 and N400 than did the neutral verbs. The results indicate that the attention captured by emotional words impaired reanalysis of the following incongruent information, demonstrating a dynamic influence of emotional words on the semantic processing of following information during sentence comprehension.

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“…For example, Hinojosa et al (2014) proposed that words with negative content can facilitate the processing of gender-agreement violations (at least in the early stages of processing). Similarly, Martín-Loeches et al (2012) found evidence that the valence of adjectives modulated how sentences are processed at both the syntactic and semantic levels, but Díaz-Lago, Fraga, & Acuña-Fariña (2015) did not find an interaction in the processing of grammatical and emotional properties of words embedded within sentences.…”

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Norms of valence and arousal for 14,031 Spanish words

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Most current models of research on emotion recognize valence (how pleasant a stimulus is) and arousal (the level of activation or intensity that a stimulus elicits) as important components in the classification of affective experiences (Barrett, 1998; Kuppens, Tuerlinckx, Russell, & Barrett, 2012). Here we present a set of norms for valence and arousal for a very large set of Spanish words, including items from a variety of frequencies, semantic categories, and parts of speech, including a subset of conjugated verbs. In this regard, we found that there were significant but very small differences between the ratings for conjugations of the same verb, validating the practice of applying the ratings for infinitives to all derived forms of the verb. Our norms show a high degree of reliability and are strongly correlated with those of Redondo, Fraga, Padron, and Comesana's (2007) Spanish version of the influential Affective Norms for English Words (Bradley & Lang, 1999), as well as those from Warriner, Kuperman, and Brysbaert (2013), the largest available set of emotional norms for English words. Additionally, we included measures of word prevalence-that is, the percentage of participants that knew a particular word-for each variable (Keuleers, Stevens, Mandera, & Brysbaert, 2015). Our large set of norms in Spanish not only will facilitate the creation of stimuli and the analysis of texts in that language, but also will be useful for cross-language comparisons and research on emotional aspects of bilingualism. The norms can be downloaded and available as a supplementary materials to this article

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The influence of emotional words on sentence processing: Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence

Cited by 64 publications

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Automaticity of higher cognitive functions: Neurophysiological evidence for unconscious syntactic processing of masked words

Automaticity of higher cognitive functions: Neurophysiological evidence for unconscious syntactic processing of masked words

The dynamic influence of emotional words on sentence comprehension: An ERP study

Norms of valence and arousal for 14,031 Spanish words

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