Time course of gender agreement violations containing emotional words

Díaz-Lago, Marcos; Fraga, Isabel; Acuña-Fariña, Carlos

doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2015.07.001

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“…The motivation for introducing the ANPW_R was to provide research materials for scientists interested in the interplay between language and emotions (e.g., Citron, 2012 ; Kaltwasser et al, 2013 ; Imbir et al, 2015a ). The areas of interest for affective norms for words are not limited to emotional scientists but also extend to researchers interested in psycholinguistics, including more complex processes such as morphosyntactic processing (Martín-Loeches et al, 2012 ; Hinojosa et al, 2014 ; Díaz-Lago et al, 2015 ) or phonological processes during language production (Hinojosa et al, 2010 ; White et al, 2016 ). The main aim of the current work was to extend a recently introduced the ANPW (Imbir, 2015a ) dataset to a greater number of words, as well as to assess the properties of stimuli using new scales such as concreteness and subjective age of acquisition.…”

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Affective Norms for 4900 Polish Words Reload (ANPW_R): Assessments for Valence, Arousal, Dominance, Origin, Significance, Concreteness, Imageability and, Age of Acquisition

Imbir

2016

Front. Psychol.

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In studies that combine understanding of emotions and language, there is growing demand for good-quality experimental materials. To meet this expectation, a large number of 4905 Polish words was assessed by 400 participants in order to provide a well-established research method for everyone interested in emotional word processing. The Affective Norms for Polish Words Reloaded (ANPW_R) is designed as an extension to the previously introduced the ANPW dataset and provides assessments for eight different affective and psycholinguistic measures of Valence, Arousal, Dominance, Origin, Significance, Concreteness, Imageability, and subjective Age of Acquisition. The ANPW_R is now the largest available dataset of affective words for Polish, including affective scores that have not been measured in any other dataset (concreteness and age of acquisition scales). Additionally, the ANPW_R allows for testing hypotheses concerning dual-mind models of emotion and activation (origin and subjective significance scales). Participants in the current study assessed all 4905 words in the list within 1 week, at their own pace in home sessions, using eight different Self-assessment Manikin (SAM) scales. Each measured dimension was evaluated by 25 women and 25 men. The ANPW_R norms appeared to be reliable in split-half estimation and congruent with previous normative studies in Polish. The quadratic relation between valence and arousal was found to be in line with previous findings. In addition, nine other relations appeared to be better described by quadratic instead of linear function. The ANPW_R provides well-established research materials for use in psycholinguistic and affective studies in Polish-speaking samples.

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Affective Norms for 4900 Polish Words Reload (ANPW_R): Assessments for Valence, Arousal, Dominance, Origin, Significance, Concreteness, Imageability and, Age of Acquisition

Imbir

2016

Front. Psychol.

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“…Based on these data, it has been possible to outline some conclusions regarding the interplay between emotion and language at both the word and sentence levels. In this sense, the results of several studies have revealed the involvement of lexico-sematic, phonological or morphosyntactic informationon the processing of emotional language [ 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 ]. However, there are many other questions that remain less understood, such as the effects of subjective AoA in the processing of affective language.…”

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The Madrid Affective Database for Spanish (MADS): Ratings of Dominance, Familiarity, Subjective Age of Acquisition and Sensory Experience

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The current study presents ratings by 540 Spanish native speakers for dominance, familiarity, subjective age of acquisition (AoA), and sensory experience (SER) for the 875 Spanish words included in the Madrid Affective Database for Spanish (MADS). The norms can be downloaded as supplementary materials for this manuscript from https://figshare.com/s/8e7b445b729527262c88 These ratings may be of potential relevance to researches who are interested in characterizing the interplay between language and emotion. Additionally, with the aim of investigating how the affective features interact with the lexicosemantic properties of words, we performed correlational analyses between norms for familiarity, subjective AoA and SER, and scores for those affective variables which are currently included in the MADs. A distinct pattern of significant correlations with affective features was found for different lexicosemantic variables. These results show that familiarity, subjective AoA and SERs may have independent effects on the processing of emotional words. They also suggest that these psycholinguistic variables should be fully considered when formulating theoretical approaches to the processing of affective language.

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“…However, our ERP effects are difficult to explain in terms of valence in the light of prior research. As in the case of emotional words, we could expect emotional sentences to recruit more processing resources than neutral sentences, and negative sentences more than positive sentences (Carretié et al, 2008;Díaz-Lago et al, 2015;Ding et al, 2016;Herbert et al, 2006;Herbert et al 2008;Hinojosa et al, 2014;Holt et al, 2009;Kanske & Kotz, 2007;Kissler et al, 2009;Martín-Loeches et al, 2012;Moreno & Rivera, 2013;Moreno & Vázquez 2011;. As person and thing sentences did not differ in valence in the norming studies, we would expect in a passive reading task valence affecting both person and thing sentences: greater ERP amplitudes to negative in contrast to positive sentences.…”

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Understanding approach and avoidance in verbal descriptions of everyday actions: An ERP study

Hernández

Urrutia

Beltrán

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Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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Understanding verbal descriptions of everyday actions could involve the neural representation of action direction (avoidance and approach) toward persons and things. We recorded the electrophysiological activity of participants while they were reading approach/avoidance action sentences that were directed toward a target: a thing/a person (i.e., "Petra accepted/rejected Ramón in her group"/ "Petra accepted/rejected the receipt of the bank"). We measured brain potentials time locked to the target word. In the case of things, we found a N400-like component with right frontal distribution modulated by approach/avoidance action. This component was more negative in avoidance than in approach sentences. In the case of persons, a later negative event-related potential (545-750 ms) with left frontal distribution was sensitive to verb direction, showing more negative amplitude for approach than avoidance actions. In addition, more negativity in approach-person sentences was associated with fear avoidance trait, whereas less negativity in avoidance-person sentences was associated with a greater approach trait. Our results support that verbal descriptions of approach/avoidance actions are encoded differently depending on whether the target is a thing or a person. Implications of these results for a social, emotional and motivational understanding of action language are discussed.

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Time course of gender agreement violations containing emotional words

Cited by 23 publications

References 76 publications

Affective Norms for 4900 Polish Words Reload (ANPW_R): Assessments for Valence, Arousal, Dominance, Origin, Significance, Concreteness, Imageability and, Age of Acquisition

Affective Norms for 4900 Polish Words Reload (ANPW_R): Assessments for Valence, Arousal, Dominance, Origin, Significance, Concreteness, Imageability and, Age of Acquisition

The Madrid Affective Database for Spanish (MADS): Ratings of Dominance, Familiarity, Subjective Age of Acquisition and Sensory Experience

Understanding approach and avoidance in verbal descriptions of everyday actions: An ERP study

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