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Emotional valence and arousal affect reading in an interactive way: Neuroimaging evidence for an approach-withdrawal framework

A growing body of literature shows that the emotional content of verbal material affects reading, wherein emotional words are given processing priority compared to neutral words. Human emotions can be conceptualised within a two-dimensional model comprised of emotional valence and arousal (intensity...

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Autores principales: Citron, Francesca M.M., Gray, Marcus A., Critchley, Hugo D., Weekes, Brendan S., Ferstl, Evelyn C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Pergamon Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4098114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24440410
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.01.002
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author Citron, Francesca M.M.
Gray, Marcus A.
Critchley, Hugo D.
Weekes, Brendan S.
Ferstl, Evelyn C.
author_facet Citron, Francesca M.M.
Gray, Marcus A.
Critchley, Hugo D.
Weekes, Brendan S.
Ferstl, Evelyn C.
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description A growing body of literature shows that the emotional content of verbal material affects reading, wherein emotional words are given processing priority compared to neutral words. Human emotions can be conceptualised within a two-dimensional model comprised of emotional valence and arousal (intensity). These variables are at least in part distinct, but recent studies report interactive effects during implicit emotion processing and relate these to stimulus-evoked approach-withdrawal tendencies. The aim of the present study was to explore how valence and arousal interact at the neural level, during implicit emotion word processing. The emotional attributes of written word stimuli were orthogonally manipulated based on behavioural ratings from a corpus of emotion words. Stimuli were presented during an fMRI experiment while 16 participants performed a lexical decision task, which did not require explicit evaluation of a word′s emotional content. Results showed greater neural activation within right insular cortex in response to stimuli evoking conflicting approach-withdrawal tendencies (i.e., positive high-arousal and negative low-arousal words) compared to stimuli evoking congruent approach vs. withdrawal tendencies (i.e., positive low-arousal and negative high-arousal words). Further, a significant cluster of activation in the left extra-striate cortex was found in response to emotional than neutral words, suggesting enhanced perceptual processing of emotionally salient stimuli. These findings support an interactive two-dimensional approach to the study of emotion word recognition and suggest that the integration of valence and arousal dimensions recruits a brain region associated with interoception, emotional awareness and sympathetic functions.
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spelling pubmed-40981142014-07-23 Emotional valence and arousal affect reading in an interactive way: Neuroimaging evidence for an approach-withdrawal framework Citron, Francesca M.M. Gray, Marcus A. Critchley, Hugo D. Weekes, Brendan S. Ferstl, Evelyn C. Neuropsychologia Article A growing body of literature shows that the emotional content of verbal material affects reading, wherein emotional words are given processing priority compared to neutral words. Human emotions can be conceptualised within a two-dimensional model comprised of emotional valence and arousal (intensity). These variables are at least in part distinct, but recent studies report interactive effects during implicit emotion processing and relate these to stimulus-evoked approach-withdrawal tendencies. The aim of the present study was to explore how valence and arousal interact at the neural level, during implicit emotion word processing. The emotional attributes of written word stimuli were orthogonally manipulated based on behavioural ratings from a corpus of emotion words. Stimuli were presented during an fMRI experiment while 16 participants performed a lexical decision task, which did not require explicit evaluation of a word′s emotional content. Results showed greater neural activation within right insular cortex in response to stimuli evoking conflicting approach-withdrawal tendencies (i.e., positive high-arousal and negative low-arousal words) compared to stimuli evoking congruent approach vs. withdrawal tendencies (i.e., positive low-arousal and negative high-arousal words). Further, a significant cluster of activation in the left extra-striate cortex was found in response to emotional than neutral words, suggesting enhanced perceptual processing of emotionally salient stimuli. These findings support an interactive two-dimensional approach to the study of emotion word recognition and suggest that the integration of valence and arousal dimensions recruits a brain region associated with interoception, emotional awareness and sympathetic functions. Pergamon Press 2014-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4098114/ /pubmed/24440410 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.01.002 Text en © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Emotional valence and arousal affect reading in an interactive way: Neuroimaging evidence for an approach-withdrawal framework
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title_full_unstemmed Emotional valence and arousal affect reading in an interactive way: Neuroimaging evidence for an approach-withdrawal framework
title_short Emotional valence and arousal affect reading in an interactive way: Neuroimaging evidence for an approach-withdrawal framework
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4098114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24440410
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.01.002
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