Variations in Bilingual Processing of Positive and Negative Information

Ong, Editha; Hussain, Syed Ali; Chow, Ying Hui; Thompson, Craig J.

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“…The exact reasons for these unexpected findings are unknown, so a potential explanation is proposed. Chinese-English (L1-L2) bilinguals from Hong Kong who rated the valence and arousal of positive, neutral, and negative words presented in both languages demonstrated both a more positive reaction to positive words and a more negative reaction to negative words in English than in Chinese; however, for the arousal rating, the negative words in Chinese were rated as having a greater arousal effect than were the negative words in English (Ong, Hussain, Chow, & Thompson, 2017). These results suggest that the valence and arousal ratings of bilinguals can be decoupled, at least with regard to negative words.…”

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“…These results suggest that the valence and arousal ratings of bilinguals can be decoupled, at least with regard to negative words. Because the bilingual participants in the this study were living in a similar language environment than were the participants in the study conducted by Ong et al (2017), they potentially felt less arousal from negative words in English but remained sensitive to valence. In terms of arousal, a psychophysiological study indicated that negative high-arousal pictures elicited higher late positive potential (LPP) responses than did negative low-arousal pictures, and trait mindfulness was associated with decreased LPP responses elicited by negative high-arousal pictures but not by negative low-arousal pictures (Lin, Fisher, Roberts, & Moser, 2016).…”

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Association of trait mindfulness with the false recognition of emotional words in bilinguals

Yeh¹,

Lu²

2019

IJRSP

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Mindfulness increases the true memory of emotionally positive stimuli and reduces the negative ones, and enhances false memory. Additionally, few researches have observed a higher false memory of negative critical lures (CLs) compared with positive CLs (i.e., the valence effect). As a consequence, this study examines whether and how trait mindfulness associates with the false memory of emotional words based on their valence values. Chinese-English bilinguals completed the Mindfulness Awareness Attention Scale (MAAS) and participated in a Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) word recognition task in first (L1) as well as second (L2) and cross-language conditions to examine whether the similar effect would be hold in the language that is less emotionally charged. In the Chinese (L1) context, although valence effect did not emerge, trait mindfulness was associated with false recognition of positive, but not with negative CLs. These results suggested that people with high trait mindfulness, through the greater awareness to the positive experience, increased the weight of gist trace in the memory process and, therefore, generate more positive false recognition. Furthermore, this memory bias could be one of the reasons that trait mindfulness associates to less depression and stress and higher well-being. On the contrary, the valence effect emerged, but was not related with trait mindfulness in the English (L2) condition. These unexpected results in the L2 condition are explained by the decoupling of valence and arousal for unbalanced bilinguals, and neutralization of trait mindfulness mainly acted on arousal but not on the valence aspects of emotion.

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confidence: 99%

Association of trait mindfulness with the false recognition of emotional words in bilinguals

Yeh¹,

Lu²

2019

IJRSP

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“…Emotion research in the bilingual literature, however, has shown that emotional content of language is also vulnerable to age affects, particularly when the second language is learnt through formal education (Caldwell-Harris, Sanches & Nayaka, 2014;Chen, Lin, Chen, Lu & Guo, 2015;Ong, Hussein, Chow & Thompson, 2017). However, it is maintained that proficiency level or length and amount of exposure may compensate for the age and context of acquisition effects (Grabitz, Watkins & Bishop, 2016;Kazanas & Altarriba, 2016;Ong, Hussain, Chow & Thompson, 2017).…”

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“…Studies conducted with healthy subjects (Dewaele, 2004a(Dewaele, , 2004bPavlenko, 2004;Kim & Starks, 2008) as well as those with theraupatic cases (Freud, 1893cited in Pavlenko, 2012 and psychophysiological studies support this view (Harris, 2004;Caldwell-Harris, Sanchez & Nayaka, 2014). However, it is maintained that proficiency (Ong, Hussain, Chow & Thompson, 2017) and frequency of use of the languages (Kazanas &Altarriba, 2016) may affect the extent of perceived emotionality in L2.…”

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Processing Emotion Words in the Late-Learned L2

Mergen

Kuruoğlu²

2021

Psycholing. in a Mod. World

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Language-emotion link has been a subject of interest for several decades. It has been studied extensively both in the monolingual and bilingual literature. However, due to the numerous factors that are at play in bilingualism, i.e. age and context of acquisition, frequency of use, there is conflicting evidence regarding the emotional load of each language of bilinguals. A great bulk of evidence leans towards the L1 as the more emotional language. This study investigates the perceived emotionality in the late learned language. Our participants (N = 57) were late bilinguals who learned their second language (English) in formal contexts after their first language (Turkish). We used a lexical decision task in which the participants determined whether the visually presented emotion words were real words or non-words. In line with the literature, we report faster response times for positive than for negative words in both languages. Also, the results showed L1 superiority in word processing.

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“…Other studies revealed that the emotional content of words has a stronger effect when presented in a bilingual's first language (L1) in comparison with their second language (L2) (Ferré et al, 2010;Conrad et al, 2011;Opitz and Degner, 2012;Chen et al, 2015;Kazanas and Altarriba, 2016;Rosselli et al, 2017). This is most likely explained by automatic processing of emotional words in L1 compared to slower, semantic processing in L2 (Ong et al, 2017). However, one study on Chinese-English bilinguals indicated that emotional word processing might be affected by the proficiency and complexity of the respective language (Ong et al, 2017).…”

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Laterality in Emotional Language Processing in First and Second Language

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Language is a cognitive function that is asymmetrically distributed across both hemispheres, with left dominance for most linguistic operations. One key question of interest in cognitive neuroscience studies is related to the contribution of both hemispheres in bilingualism. Previous work shows a difference of both hemispheres for auditory processing of emotional and non-emotional words in bilinguals and monolinguals. In this study, we examined the differences between both hemispheres in the processing of emotional and non-emotional words of mother tongue language and foreign language. Sixty university students with Persian mother tongue and English as their second language were included. Differences between hemispheres were compared using the dichotic listening test. We tested the effect of hemisphere, language and emotion and their interaction. The right ear (associated with the left hemisphere) showed an advantage for the processing of all words in the first language, and positive words in the second language. Overall, our findings support previous studies reporting left-hemispheric dominance in late bilinguals for processing auditory stimuli.

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Variations in Bilingual Processing of Positive and Negative Information

Cited by 9 publications

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Association of trait mindfulness with the false recognition of emotional words in bilinguals

Association of trait mindfulness with the false recognition of emotional words in bilinguals

Processing Emotion Words in the Late-Learned L2

Laterality in Emotional Language Processing in First and Second Language

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