Laterality and sex differences for visual recognition of emotional and non-emotional words

Graves, Roger E.; Landis, Théodor; Goodglass, Harold

doi:10.1016/0028-3932(81)90049-x

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“…Although previous research has indicated a female advantage in the processing of verbal information and pictorial information in certain task domains (see e.g., Harshman & Paivio, 1987;Kimura & clarke, 2002;Kimura & Seal, 2003), those studies did not examine emotionality characteristics as related to concrete stimuli. one might speculate that the female advantage in emotionality ratings for concrete words stems from the finding that emotion words are more imageable than abstract words (Altarriba & Bauer, 2004) combined with the claim that imageability creates a female advantage in processing concrete words in general (Graves, landis, & Goodglass, 1981). thus, given that concrete words are more imageable and that emotion characteristics also aid imageability, females may have a boost in processing concrete words in an emotional mode.…”

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An Investigation of Sex Differences in Word Ratings Across Concrete, Abstract, and Emotion Words

Bauer

Altarriba

2008

Psychol Rec

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An Investigation of Sex Differences in Word Ratings Across Concrete, Abstract, and Emotion Words

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Altarriba

2008

Psychol Rec

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“…Williamson et al (1991) studied psychopaths during performance of an emotional lexical decision task. Studies have shown that healthy control participants respond faster and more accurately to letter strings that form emotional words (positive and negative in affect) than letter strings that form neutral words (Graves et al, 1981). Williamson et al found that psychopaths failed to show any difference in reaction time between emotional and neutral words.…”

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A cognitive neuroscience perspective on psychopathy: Evidence for paralimbic system dysfunction

Kiehl

2006

Psychiatry Research

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Psychopathy is a complex personality disorder that includes interpersonal and affective traits such as glibness, lack of empathy, guilt or remorse, shallow affect, and irresponsibility, and behavioral characteristics such as impulsivity, poor behavioral control, and promiscuity. Much is known about the assessment of psychopathy; however, relatively little is understood about the relevant brain disturbances. The present review integrates data from studies of behavioral and cognitive changes associated with focal brain lesions or insults and results from psychophysiology, cognitive psychology and cognitive and affective neuroscience in health and psychopathy. The review illustrates that the brain regions implicated in psychopathy include the orbital frontal cortex, insula, anterior and posterior cingulate, amygdala, parahippocampal gyrus, and anterior superior temporal gyrus. The relevant functional neuroanatomy of psychopathy thus includes limbic and paralimbic structures that may be collectively termed 'the paralimbic system'. The paralimbic system dysfunction model of psychopathy is discussed as it relates to the extant literature on psychopathy.

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“…tion times and higher accuracy than neutral words (Ali & Cimino, 1997;Borod, Andelman, Obler, Tweedy, & Welkowitz, 1992;Eviatar & Zaidel, 1991;Graves, Landis, & Goodglass, 1980;Inaba, Nomura, & Ohira, 2005;Kuchinke et al, 2005), and emotional words have been shown to induce emotional priming (Brouillet & Syssau, 2005;Carroll & Young, 2005;Van Strien & Morpurgo, 1992). Distinct neural correlates have been found that respond to changes in the valence level of words (Cato et al, 2004;Fossati et al, 2003;Kuchinke et al, 2005;Lewis, Critchley, Rotshtein, & Dolan, 2007), and these have been differentiated from neural correlates for which activation varies according to arousal (Lewis et al, 2007).…”

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Characterization of the Affective Norms for English Words by discrete emotional categories

Stevenson

Mikels

James

2007

Behavior Research Methods

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1020Affect has been studied using a wide range of methodologies, procedures, and tasks. In addition, a wide range of stimuli have been used in the study of emotion, including pictures of facial expressions, static pictures of emotional scenes, video clips, imagery inductions, nonlinguistic verbalizations, environmental sounds, prosody, and spoken and written words. One of the largest word sets is the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW; Bradley & Lang, 1999), a set of 1,034 English words including verbs, nouns, and adjectives. ANEW has been characterized along the dimensions of valence, arousal, and dominance, as well as by word frequency. Dimensional norms, however, are only one of two general types of norms that are useful for characterizing affective stimuli. The other major approach involves classifying the stimulus set along emotional category lines. Providing these complementary data for the ANEW stimulus set would potentially open many new possibilities to researchers.Dimensional theories of affect have been shown to be most powerful when models include two categories, valence and arousal (Mehrabian & Russel, 1974;Smith & Ellsworth, 1985;Yik, Russell, & Barrett, 1999). Empirical applications of the dimensional model using words as stimuli have been successfully used in many studies. Behaviorally, positive and negative words elicit lower reaction times and higher accuracy than neutral words (Ali & Cimino, 1997;Borod, Andelman, Obler, Tweedy, & Welkowitz, 1992;Eviatar & Zaidel, 1991;Graves, Landis, & Goodglass, 1980;Inaba, Nomura, & Ohira, 2005;Kuchinke et al., 2005), and emotional words have been shown to induce emotional priming (Brouillet & Syssau, 2005;Carroll & Young, 2005;Van Strien & Morpurgo, 1992). Distinct neural correlates have been found that respond to changes in the valence level of words (Cato et al., 2004;Fossati et al., 2003;Kuchinke et al., 2005;Lewis, Critchley, Rotshtein, & Dolan, 2007), and these have been differentiated from neural correlates for which activation varies according to arousal (Lewis et al., 2007). Likewise, patients with brain lesions have shown specific deficits in responses to words and sentences of specific valences (Anderson & Phelps, 2001;Borod et al., 1992).Models of emotion based on discrete categories have also proved useful in empirical studies. These studies have focused on the use of facial expressions (Ekman, 1993) and static pictures (Bradley, Codispoti, Cuthbert, & Lang, 2001;Lang, Greenwald, Bradley, & Hamm, 1993;Mikels et al., 2005) to show differences in facial electromyography, heart rate, and electrodermal measures between different discrete emotions. Studies of brain-damaged patients have also revealed impairment in emotional recog- The Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW) are a commonly used set of 1,034 words characterized on the affective dimensions of valence, arousal, and dominance. Traditionally, studies of affect have used stimuli characterized along either affective dimensions or discrete emotional categories, but much current research...

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Laterality and sex differences for visual recognition of emotional and non-emotional words

Cited by 115 publications

References 18 publications

An Investigation of Sex Differences in Word Ratings Across Concrete, Abstract, and Emotion Words

An Investigation of Sex Differences in Word Ratings Across Concrete, Abstract, and Emotion Words

A cognitive neuroscience perspective on psychopathy: Evidence for paralimbic system dysfunction

Characterization of the Affective Norms for English Words by discrete emotional categories

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