Learning new words’ emotional meanings in the contexts of faces and sentences
Language is a powerful vehicle for expressing emotions, although the process by which words acquire their emotional meaning remains poorly understood. This study investigates how words acquire emotional meanings using two types of associative contexts: faces and sentences. To this end, participants were exposed to pseudowords repeatedly paired either with faces or with sentences expressing the emotions of disgust, sadness, or neutrality. We examined participants’ acquisition of meanings by testing [...]
Different bias mechanisms in recall and recognition of conceptual and perceptual information of an event
The aim of this research was to study the memory and [...]
Electroencephalographic and skin temperature indices of vigilance and inhibitory control
Neurophysiological markers of the ability to sustain attention and exert inhibitory [...]
Priming effects in the recognition of simple and complex words and pseudowords
Whether morphological processing of complex words occurs beyond orthographic processing [...]
Lexico-syntactic interactions in the resolution of relative clause ambiguities in a second language (L2): The role of cognate status and L2 proficiency
There is extensive evidence showing that bilinguals activate lexical representations [...]
