Processing of pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral words in a lateralised emotional Stroop task

Borkenau, Peter; Mauer, Nadine

doi:10.1080/02699930500348131

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“…Then it appears necessary, when examining behavioral influences upon cognition, to consider cognitive functioning with a systemic approach (e.g., Von Bertalanffy, 1968) in which the different intra‐ and interhemispheric activations linked notably to congruent and behavioral motor components are interdependent, rather than only considering some localized hemispheric specializations necessarily linked to sum or concurrent cognitive effects (Bartolic, Basso, Schefft, Glauser, & Titanic‐Schefft, 1999). In the light of the complexity of brain functions, one cognitive activity cannot properly be linked only to just one specific cerebral region, although certain cognitive processes appear to be more strongly associated with particular brain areas than others (see e.g., Borkenau & Mauer, 2006; Konishi et al., 2002; Jimura et al., 2004). As Kohn, Zandvakili, and Smith (2009) indicated in one recent article, neural activity in the cortex is interconnected.…”

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Influence of Bilateral Motor Behaviors on Flexible Functioning: An Embodied Perspective

Cretenet

Dru

2011

Cognitive Science

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To examine the influence of bilateral motor behaviors on flexibility performance, two studies were conducted. Previous research has shown that when performing unilateral motor behavior that activates the affective and motivational systems of approach versus avoidance (arm flexion vs. extension), it is the congruence between laterality and motor activation that determines flexibility-rigidity functioning (Cretenet & Dru, 2009). When bilateral motor behaviors were performed, a mechanism of embodiment was revealed. It showed that the flexibility scores were determined by the match between the respective qualities of congruence of each of the unilateral motor behaviors performed. These results bring to light an overall embodied mechanism associated with the compatibility of the cognitive impact(s) of each motor behavior performed.

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Influence of Bilateral Motor Behaviors on Flexible Functioning: An Embodied Perspective

Cretenet

Dru

2011

Cognitive Science

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“…The EST is based on the assumption that response times to the question about the color of printed letters of neutral words are shorter than the response times to emotional words, mainly negative ones (Borkenau & Mauer, 2006;McKenna & Sharma, 2004;Williams, Mathews & MacLeod, 1996). It is assumed that this effect is due to the rapid and automatic attraction of attention by the content of the emotional words.…”

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The Effect of Automatic vs. Reflective Emotions on Cognitive Control in Antisaccade Tasks and the Emotional Stroop Test

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Jarymowicz²

2013

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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“…A study by Borkenau and Mauer (2006) investigated the RH and the valence models by means of the Emotional Stroop Task. The analysis of response latencies showed a greater activation of the LH in response to pleasant stimuli and a greater activation of the RH in response to unpleasant stimuli providing support for the valence model.…”

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“…The analysis of response latencies showed a greater activation of the LH in response to pleasant stimuli and a greater activation of the RH in response to unpleasant stimuli providing support for the valence model. The results of the study should be interpreted with caution, however, as the stimuli were not matched on word frequency which constitutes an important experimental variable in psycholinguistic research (Borkenau & Mauer, 2006). Ali and Cimino (1997) investigated the lateralization of perception and memory for emotionally valenced verbal stimuli in a lexical decision task followed by a free-word recall and a word recognition task.…”

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Hemispheric asymmetry of emotion words in a non-native mind: A divided visual field study

Jończyk

2014

Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition

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This study investigates hemispheric specialization for emotional words among proficient non-native speakers of English by means of the divided visual field paradigm. The motivation behind the study is to extend the monolingual hemifield research to the non-native context and see how emotion words are processed in a non-native mind. Sixty eight females participated in the study, all highly proficient in English. The stimuli comprised 12 positive nouns, 12 negative nouns, 12 non-emotional nouns and 36 pseudo-words. To examine the lateralization of emotion, stimuli were presented unilaterally in a random fashion for 180 ms in a go/no-go lexical decision task. The perceptual data showed a right hemispheric advantage for processing speed of negative words and a complementary role of the two hemispheres in the recognition accuracy of experimental stimuli. The data indicate that processing of emotion words in non-native language may require greater interhemispheric communication, but at the same time demonstrates a specific role of the right hemisphere in the processing of negative relative to positive valence. The results of the study are discussed in light of the methodological inconsistencies in the hemifield research as well as the non-native context in which the study was conducted.

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Processing of pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral words in a lateralised emotional Stroop task

Cited by 17 publications

References 17 publications

Influence of Bilateral Motor Behaviors on Flexible Functioning: An Embodied Perspective

Influence of Bilateral Motor Behaviors on Flexible Functioning: An Embodied Perspective

The Effect of Automatic vs. Reflective Emotions on Cognitive Control in Antisaccade Tasks and the Emotional Stroop Test

Hemispheric asymmetry of emotion words in a non-native mind: A divided visual field study

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