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Brunye, Tad T.; Gagnon, Stephanie A.; Paczynski, Martin; Shenhav, Amitai; Mahoney, Caroline R.; Taylor, Holly A. – Cognition, 2013
Several studies have demonstrated that affective states influence the number of associations formed between remotely related concepts. Someone in a neutral or negative affective state might draw the association between "cold" and "hot", whereas someone in a positive affective state might spontaneously form the more distant association between…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Semantics, Psychological Patterns, Correlation
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Dikker, Suzanne; Rabagliati, Hugh; Pylkkanen, Liina – Cognition, 2009
One of the most intriguing findings on language comprehension is that violations of syntactic predictions can affect event-related potentials as early as 120 ms, in the same time-window as early sensory processing. This effect, the so-called early left-anterior negativity (ELAN), has been argued to reflect word category access and initial…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Cues, Syntax