Emotional and semantic networks in visual word processing: insights from ERP studies

Kißler, Johanna; Assadollahi, Ramin; Herbert, Cornelia

doi:10.1016/s0079-6123(06)56008-x

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“…Moreover, unlike in most of the previous studies, in which a larger LPC was found for emotional than for neutral words (see the reviews by Citron, 2012;Hajcak et al, 2012;Kissler, Assadollahi, & Herbert, 2006), the emotional verbs elicited a smaller LPC than did the neutral verbs in the present study. The larger LPC elicited by emotional words embedded in sentences has been taken as a reflection of reallocation of attentional resources toward emotional information for emotional evaluation (Hajcak et al, 2012).…”

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The dynamic influence of emotional words on sentence comprehension: An ERP study

Ding

Lin

Yang

2016

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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In the present study, we explored the influence of emotional words on the semantic integration of their following neutral nouns during sentence comprehension. We manipulated the emotionality of verbs and the semantic congruity of their following (neutral) object nouns in sentences. Eventrelated potentials were recorded to the verbs, which were either negative or neutral, and to the object nouns, which were either semantically congruent or incongruent relative to the preceding contexts. We found an N400 and a P600 effect in response to the semantic congruity of the nouns when they followed the neutral verbs. However, the P600 (but not the N400) semantic congruity effect may have been attenuated when the nouns followed the negative verbs. Meanwhile, the negative verbs elicited a larger P2 and N400 than did the neutral verbs. The results indicate that the attention captured by emotional words impaired reanalysis of the following incongruent information, demonstrating a dynamic influence of emotional words on the semantic processing of following information during sentence comprehension.

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The dynamic influence of emotional words on sentence comprehension: An ERP study

Ding

Lin

Yang

2016

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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“…Again, threatening angry faces appear to elicit particularly large LPPs (Schupp et al 2004b). Similar emotion effects are also found for other types of stimuli such as words (Kissler et al 2006(Kissler et al , 2007(Kissler et al , 2009, gestures (Flaisch et al 2011), or pictures (Junghöfer et al 2001;Schupp et al 2004a). In general, early emotion effects in vision are thought to reflect emotionally motivated selective attention and perceptual tagging (Schupp et al 2003(Schupp et al , 2004b, whereas effects in the LPP window reflect explicit stimulus evaluation and memory processing (Schupp et al 2003(Schupp et al , 2004b.…”

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Something always sticks? how emotional language modulates neural processes involved in face encoding and recognition memory

Kißler¹,

Strehlow

2017

Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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AbstractLanguage can serve to constrain cognitive and emotional representations. Here, we investigate to what extent linguistic emotional information alters processing of faces with neutral expressions. Previous studies have shown that cortical processing of emotional faces differs from that of neutral faces. Electroencephalography (EEG) has revealed emotion effects for early and late event-related potentials (ERPs) such as the N1, the Early Posterior Negativity (EPN) and the Late Positive Potential (LPP). In order to study the effect of language information on face processing, 30 negative and 30 neutral descriptive phrases were presented, each followed by a neutral expression face. Participants were instructed to remember the association. We analyzed the immediate effect of information type on face processing during encoding as well as delayed effects during subsequent recognition. During encoding, faces following negative language information elicited a larger left frontal positivity between 500–700 ms after stimulus onset. During recognition, a left centro-parietal LPP was likewise increased for faces previously associated with a negative description. In addition, the parietal old/new effect was significantly increased for faces with negative information compared to new ones, while no significant effect was observed for faces with neutral information. No information effects on early perceptual ERPs (N1, EPN) were found. Reaction times (RTs) for source memory decisions (negative versus neutral) were significantly shorter for faces with negative versus neutral information. In sum, ERP results indicate that emotional significance can be linguistically induced in faces on a cortical level and, at least in an explicit memory task, this information modulates later stages of face processing and memory. Implications for cognitive effects of public media design are discussed.

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“…Differences were evident at both behavioral and electrophysiological levels and indicated that affective information modulated the processing of pictures and had little influence in word processing. Several authors have previously suggested that stimuli that are relevant from a biological point of view, such as emotional images, are capable of inducing higher amounts of physiological arousal in the viewer than are verbal emotional material whose emotional meaning is acquired by learning (Keil, 2006;Kissler et al, 2006;Mogg & Bradley, 1998;Vanderploeg et al, 1987). However, such a suggestion has been based mainly on indirect data.…”

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Electrophysiological differences in the processing of affective information in words and pictures

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Carretié

Valcárcel

et al. 2009

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

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Emotional and semantic networks in visual word processing: insights from ERP studies

Cited by 279 publications

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The dynamic influence of emotional words on sentence comprehension: An ERP study

The dynamic influence of emotional words on sentence comprehension: An ERP study

Something always sticks? how emotional language modulates neural processes involved in face encoding and recognition memory

Electrophysiological differences in the processing of affective information in words and pictures

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