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How does emotional content affect lexical processing?
Even single words in isolation can evoke emotional reactions, but the mechanisms by which emotion is involved in automatic lexical processing are unclear. Previous studies using extremely similar materials and methods have yielded apparently incompatible patterns of results. In much previous work, h...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3979450/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24215294 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2013.851068 |
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author | Vinson, David Ponari, Marta Vigliocco, Gabriella |
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description | Even single words in isolation can evoke emotional reactions, but the mechanisms by which emotion is involved in automatic lexical processing are unclear. Previous studies using extremely similar materials and methods have yielded apparently incompatible patterns of results. In much previous work, however, words' emotional content is entangled with other non-emotional characteristics such as frequency of occurrence, familiarity and age of acquisition, all of which have potential consequences for lexical processing themselves. In the present study, the authors compare different models of emotion using the British Lexicon Project, a large-scale freely available lexical decision database. After controlling for the potentially confounding effects of non-emotional variables, a variety of statistical approaches revealed that emotional words, whether positive or negative, are processed faster than neutral words. This effect appears to be categorical rather than graded; is not modulated by emotional arousal; and is not limited to words explicitly referring to emotions. The authors suggest that emotional connotations facilitate processing due to the grounding of words' meanings in emotional experience. |
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spelling | pubmed-39794502014-04-25 How does emotional content affect lexical processing? Vinson, David Ponari, Marta Vigliocco, Gabriella Cogn Emot Brief Report Even single words in isolation can evoke emotional reactions, but the mechanisms by which emotion is involved in automatic lexical processing are unclear. Previous studies using extremely similar materials and methods have yielded apparently incompatible patterns of results. In much previous work, however, words' emotional content is entangled with other non-emotional characteristics such as frequency of occurrence, familiarity and age of acquisition, all of which have potential consequences for lexical processing themselves. In the present study, the authors compare different models of emotion using the British Lexicon Project, a large-scale freely available lexical decision database. After controlling for the potentially confounding effects of non-emotional variables, a variety of statistical approaches revealed that emotional words, whether positive or negative, are processed faster than neutral words. This effect appears to be categorical rather than graded; is not modulated by emotional arousal; and is not limited to words explicitly referring to emotions. The authors suggest that emotional connotations facilitate processing due to the grounding of words' meanings in emotional experience. Taylor & Francis 2013-11-08 2014-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3979450/ /pubmed/24215294 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2013.851068 Text en © 2013 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. http://www.informaworld.com/mpp/uploads/iopenaccess_tcs.pdf This is an open access article distributed under the Supplemental Terms and Conditions for iOpenAccess articles published in Taylor & Francis journals (http://www.informaworld.com/mpp/uploads/iopenaccess_tcs.pdf) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Vinson, David Ponari, Marta Vigliocco, Gabriella How does emotional content affect lexical processing? |
title | How does emotional content affect lexical processing? |
title_full | How does emotional content affect lexical processing? |
title_fullStr | How does emotional content affect lexical processing? |
title_full_unstemmed | How does emotional content affect lexical processing? |
title_short | How does emotional content affect lexical processing? |
title_sort | how does emotional content affect lexical processing? |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3979450/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24215294 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2013.851068 |
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