Buzzwords: Early Cortical Responses to Emotional Words During Reading.
A study was conducted to investigate whether early stages of word processing, as reflected by posterior negativities, are bolstered in response to emotional content during uninstructed reading. Data were obtained from 16 native German students who were asked to write down as many of 180 presented G...
| Publicado en: | Psychological Science. Vol. 18; no. 6; pp. 475 - 481 |
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| Sumario: | A study was conducted to investigate whether early stages of word processing, as reflected by posterior negativities, are bolstered in response to emotional content during uninstructed reading. Data were obtained from 16 native German students who were asked to write down as many of 180 presented German nouns as they could remember. Findings indicated that during reading, a word's emotional connotation is spontaneously activated immediately after its assembly of its visual-word-form representation. Findings suggested a physiological basis for the effect of emotional content during reading and indicated that this may contribute to the emotions experienced in reading an absorbing novel. Findings are discussed in detail. |
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