The influence of emotional orthographic neighbourhood in visual word recognition
The aim was to investigate the activation spread between the orthographic lexicon and the affective system by means of emotional orthographic neighbourhood. Target words with a neutral emotional valence (e.g., tenace, fuseau) were selected so that they had only one higher-frequency orthographic neig...
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Current psychology letters
2013
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| Samenvatting: | The aim was to investigate the activation spread between the orthographic lexicon and the affective system by means of emotional orthographic neighbourhood. Target words with a neutral emotional valence (e.g., tenace, fuseau) were selected so that they had only one higher-frequency orthographic neighbour with either a negative valence (e.g., menace) or a neutral valence (e.g., fuseau). All target words were presented in a primed lexical decision task, either preceded by their neighbour or by a control prime during 66 or 166 ms. The main finding was the inhibitory effect of negative emotional orthographic neighbourhood. Target word responses were delayed when the valence of the neighbour was negative rather than neutral. The data also indicated an inhibitory orthographic neighbourhood priming effect that was enhanced by prime duration. The results are discussed within an interactive-activation framework of visual word recognition adapted to affective processing. |
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