10 years of BAWLing into affective and aesthetic processes in reading: what are the echoes?

Jacobs, Arthur; Võ, Melissa L.-H.; Briesemeister, Benny B.; Conrad, Markus; Hofmann, Markus; Kuchinke, Lars; Lüdtke, Jana; Braun, Mario

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00714

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“…Sensory simulation gets a boost from emotionality in a figurative context, but not in a literal context, comparable with past rating results (Citron et al, 2015;Jacobs et al, 2015). This suggests that the emotional context leads to a more concrete -more 'embodied' -representation of the metaphorical motion, as compared to the same metaphorical motion occurring in a non-emotional context.…”

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Emotional context modulates embodied metaphor comprehension

Samur¹,

Lai

Hagoort

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Neuropsychologia

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a b s t r a c tEmotions are often expressed metaphorically, and both emotion and metaphor are ways through which abstract meaning can be grounded in language. Here we investigate specifically whether motion-related verbs when used metaphorically are differentially sensitive to a preceding emotional context, as compared to when they are used in a literal manner. Participants read stories that ended with ambiguous action/motion sentences (e.g., he got it), in which the action/motion could be interpreted metaphorically (he understood the idea) or literally (he caught the ball) depending on the preceding story. Orthogonal to the metaphorical manipulation, the stories were high or low in emotional content. The results showed that emotional context modulated the neural response in visual motion areas to the metaphorical interpretation of the sentences, but not to their literal interpretations. In addition, literal interpretations of the target sentences led to stronger activation in the visual motion areas as compared to metaphorical readings of the sentences. We interpret our results as suggesting that emotional context specifically modulates mental simulation during metaphor processing.

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“…We expect an emotional 'boost' in the embodiment of metaphorical language, which would be expressed in an increased reliance on sensorimotor regions (Citron et al, 2015;Jacobs et al, 2015). Alternatively, there may be a main effect of emotional context, in the absence of an interaction effect.…”

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Emotional context modulates embodied metaphor comprehension

Samur¹,

Lai

Hagoort

et al. 2015

Neuropsychologia

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“…In the last decade, a growing body of research on the relationships between language and affect has shown that the emotional content of words affects comprehension processes, challenging semantic models of word recognition and text comprehension that typically have not considered this important aspect (Jacobs, 2011;Jacobs et al, 2015). More specifically, emotionally laden words are recognized faster and have processing priority when compared to neutral words.…”

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When emotions are expressed figuratively: Psycholinguistic and Affective Norms of 619 Idioms for German (PANIG)

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Despite flourishing research on the relationship between emotion and literal language, and despite the pervasiveness of figurative expressions in communication, the role of figurative language in conveying affect has been underinvestigated. This study provides affective and psycholinguistic norms for 619 German idiomatic expressions and explores the relationships between affective and psycholinguistic idiom properties. German native speakers rated each idiom for emotional valence, arousal, familiarity, semantic transparency, figurativeness, and concreteness. They also described the figurative meaning of each idiom and rated how confident they were about the attributed meaning. The results showed that idioms rated high in valence were also rated high in arousal. Negative idioms were rated as more arousing than positive ones, in line with results from single words. Furthermore, arousal correlated positively with figurativeness (supporting the idea that figurative expressions are more emotionally engaging than literal expressions) and with concreteness and semantic transparency. This suggests that idioms may convey a more direct reference to sensory representations, mediated by the meanings of their constituting words. Arousal correlated positively with familiarity. In addition, positive idioms were rated as more familiar than negative idioms. Finally, idioms without a literal counterpart were rated as more emotionally valenced and arousing than idioms with a literal counterpart. Although the meanings of ambiguous idioms were less correctly defined than those of unambiguous idioms, ambiguous idioms were rated as more concrete than unambiguous ones. We also discuss the relationships between the various psycholinguistic variables characterizing idioms, with reference to the literature on idiom structure and processing.

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“…Hierarchical diffusion models explicitly allow to estimate diffusion model parameters for individual participants even if the number of data points per subject is relatively small. This makes hierarchical diffusion modeling an ideal method in fields such as psycholinguistics and reading where it is not always possible to generate a large number of stimuli per experimental condition that require careful matching and multiple controls (e.g., Jacobs et al, 2015). …”

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Drifting through Basic Subprocesses of Reading: A Hierarchical Diffusion Model Analysis of Age Effects on Visual Word Recognition

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Reading is one of the most popular leisure activities and it is routinely performed by most individuals even in old age. Successful reading enables older people to master and actively participate in everyday life and maintain functional independence. Yet, reading comprises a multitude of subprocesses and it is undoubtedly one of the most complex accomplishments of the human brain. Not surprisingly, findings of age-related effects on word recognition and reading have been partly contradictory and are often confined to only one of four central reading subprocesses, i.e., sublexical, orthographic, phonological and lexico-semantic processing. The aim of the present study was therefore to systematically investigate the impact of age on each of these subprocesses. A total of 1,807 participants (young, N = 384; old, N = 1,423) performed four decision tasks specifically designed to tap one of the subprocesses. To account for the behavioral heterogeneity in older adults, this subsample was split into high and low performing readers. Data were analyzed using a hierarchical diffusion modeling approach, which provides more information than standard response time/accuracy analyses. Taking into account incorrect and correct response times, their distributions and accuracy data, hierarchical diffusion modeling allowed us to differentiate between age-related changes in decision threshold, non-decision time and the speed of information uptake. We observed longer non-decision times for older adults and a more conservative decision threshold. More importantly, high-performing older readers outperformed younger adults at the speed of information uptake in orthographic and lexico-semantic processing, whereas a general age-disadvantage was observed at the sublexical and phonological levels. Low-performing older readers were slowest in information uptake in all four subprocesses. Discussing these results in terms of computational models of word recognition, we propose age-related disadvantages for older readers to be caused by inefficiencies in temporal sampling and activation and/or inhibition processes.

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10 years of BAWLing into affective and aesthetic processes in reading: what are the echoes?

Cited by 70 publications

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Emotional context modulates embodied metaphor comprehension

Emotional context modulates embodied metaphor comprehension

When emotions are expressed figuratively: Psycholinguistic and Affective Norms of 619 Idioms for German (PANIG)

Drifting through Basic Subprocesses of Reading: A Hierarchical Diffusion Model Analysis of Age Effects on Visual Word Recognition

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