The Emergence of Alphabetic Scripts

Rollston, Christopher A.

doi:10.1002/9781119193814.ch4

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“…English strings were adopted from Jurchiș et al (2020). These were transformed into a Phoenician script, a relatively unfamiliar alphabet for contemporary speakers (Rollston, 2020). Participants next underwent a CS-US conditioning protocol where English/Phoenician strings were correlated with happy/angry faces (Panel C), which was followed by a free-selection memory check (Panel D) and a second round of evaluation and preference tests.…”

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Valence generalization across nonrecurring structures.

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2022

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cogniti

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Valence generalization across nonrecurring structures.

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2022

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“…English strings were adopted from Jurchiș et al (2020). These were transformed into a Phoenician script, a relatively unknown alphabet to contemporary speakers (Rollston, 2020). Participants next underwent a modified CS-US conditioning task, where English and Phoenician strings were differentially associated with happy or angry faces (Panel C).…”

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<strong>Valence generalization across non-recurring structures</strong>

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2021

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Semantically meaningless strings that are associated with affective attributes (US) can become emotionally valenced CS. Jurchiș et al (2020) recently demonstrated CS-US associations may influence evaluations towards previously-unseen letter strings if the latter share grammar construction rules with CS. We replicated those authors' findings in a modified extension (Experiment 1; N1 = 108), where happy/angry faces (US) were differentially associated with letter strings (CS) constructed using familiar (English) or non-familiar (Phoenician) alphabets. CS-US sequences were sandwiched by evaluations of strings that never appeared as CS, but shared grammar construction rules. However, post-hoc tests indicated valence effects were restricted to participants classified as 'high awareness' or those who had been exposed to longer stimulus durations, suggesting resource-intense deliberations were central during evaluations. Qualitative awareness checks additionally showcased many participants had attributed valences to recurring elements across conditioned and evaluated exemplars. These limitations were collectively addressed in Experiment 2 (N2 = 140), where participants viewed Phoenician (/English) CS during conditioning but viewed English (/Phoenician) strings during evaluations, meaning no strings nor elements recurred between phases. We found credible valence effects across English and Phoenician strings, with the latter observed across all awareness categories. Because participants were unable to consciously specify any evaluative strategies while evaluating Phoenician strings, we speculate grammar construction rules (organizing relations) may have been non-consciously acquired during conditioning.

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The Emergence of Alphabetic Scripts

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Valence generalization across nonrecurring structures.

Valence generalization across nonrecurring structures.

<strong>Valence generalization across non-recurring structures</strong>

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