Concreteness in word processing: ERP and behavioral effects in a lexical decision task

Barber, Horacio A.; Otten, Leun J.; Kousta, Stavroula; Vigliocco, Gabriella

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2013.01.005

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“…In particular, Kousta et al (2011) considered that the Breversed concreteness effect^(i.e., abstract words being faster and more accurately processed than concrete words) reported recently in several studies (Barber et al, 2013;Kousta et al, 2011) could be explained by the fact that abstract words are more emotionally loaded than concrete ones. In the present study, we examined the relationship between affective and lexico-semantic variables.…”

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Spanish norms for affective and lexico-semantic variables for 1,400 words

2015

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Studies of semantic variables (e.g., concreteness) and affective variables (i.e., valence and arousal) have traditionally tended to run in different directions. However, in recent years there has been growing interest in studying the relationship, as well as the potential overlaps, between the two. This article describes a database that provides subjective ratings for 1,400 Spanish words for valence, arousal, concreteness, imageability, context availability, and familiarity. Data were collected online through a process involving 826 university students. The results showed a high interrater reliability for all of the variables examined, as well as high correlations between our affective and semantic values and norms currently available in other Spanish databases. Regarding the affective variables, the typical quadratic correlation between valence and arousal ratings was obtained. Likewise, significant correlations were found between the lexico-semantic variables. Importantly, we obtained moderate negative correlations between emotionality and both concreteness and imageability. This is in line with the claim that abstract words have more affective associations than concrete ones (Kousta, Vigliocco, Vinson, Andrews, & Del Campo, 2011). The present Spanish database is suitable for experimental research into the effects of both affective properties and lexico-semantic variables on word processing and memory.

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Spanish norms for affective and lexico-semantic variables for 1,400 words

2015

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“…Concreteness of verbal stimuli was found to be an important factor that modulates Event Related Potential (ERP) correlates of emotional word processing (c.f. Barber et al 2013;Kanske and Kotz 2007;Palazova et al 2013). In other words, concrete stimuli are processed quite different than abstract ones in terms of brain responses to them.…”

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Words’ Origin of an Affective State, but not Valence, Shape the Reaction Latencies in a Word-Sign Choosing Ambiguous Task

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2017

Curr Psychol

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This paper presents data concerning the impact of word connotations differing in valence and origin on ambiguous decisions. The origin factor describes engagement of automatic vs. controlled processing mechanisms in formation of an emotional reaction to the stimuli (words, in this case). Other potentially important factors such as arousal, concreteness, frequency of appearance in language and length were matched across conditions. The task was introduced as intuition related and participants were supposed to guess which one of two hexagrams, introduced as pictorial symbols from an East Asian language, best suited the meaning of certain words. The expectation was that the origin of a word's affective connotations would influence decision making speed, and reaction latencies would be longer for reflectively originated words compared to automatically originated ones. The rationale for such a hypothesis is that reflective origins of emotional reactions are part of rational, multi-criteria processing, representing more complex mechanisms than automatic origins of emotional reactions based on experiential, automatic appraisals, representing less complex processing. For reflectively originated words, reaction latencies for word-sign matching tasks were longer than for automatically originated ones. No valence effects were found. Also no effects of the manipulations were found for time spent look at the words or location (top or bottom) of the chosen response in an ambiguous word-symbol matching task. This suggests that, indeed, origin influences only the type of processing that subsequently occurs, namely whether choices reflected systematic or heuristic processing.

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“…Are there hemispheric differences in the processing of concrete and abstract words (Oliveira, Perea, Ladera, & Gamito, 2013)? Does concreteness affect bilingual and monolingual word processing (Barber, Otten, Kousta, & Vigliocco, 2013;Connell & Lynott, 2012;Gianico-Relyea & Altarriba, 2012;Kaushanskaya & Rechtzigel, 2012)? Do concrete and abstract words differ in affective connotation (Ferré, Guasch, Moldovan, & Sánchez-Casas, 2012;Kousta, Vigliocco, Vinson, Andrews, & Del Campo, 2011)?…”

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Norms of age of acquisition and concreteness for 30,000 Dutch words

Brysbaert¹,

Stevens²,

Deyne³

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Acta Psychologica

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a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f oWord processing studies increasingly make use of regression analyses based on large numbers of stimuli (the socalled megastudy approach) rather than experimental designs based on small factorial designs. This requires the availability of word features for many words. Following similar studies in English, we present and validate ratings of age of acquisition and concreteness for 30,000 Dutch words. These include nearly all lemmas language researchers are likely to be interested in. The ratings are freely available for research purposes.

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Concreteness in word processing: ERP and behavioral effects in a lexical decision task

Cited by 200 publications

References 37 publications

Spanish norms for affective and lexico-semantic variables for 1,400 words

Spanish norms for affective and lexico-semantic variables for 1,400 words

Words’ Origin of an Affective State, but not Valence, Shape the Reaction Latencies in a Word-Sign Choosing Ambiguous Task

Norms of age of acquisition and concreteness for 30,000 Dutch words

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