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Yao, Bo; Keitel, Anne; Bruce, Gillian; Scott, Graham G.; O'Donnell, Patrick J.; Sereno, Sara C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Emotion (positive and negative) words are typically recognized faster than neutral words. Recent research suggests that emotional valence, while often treated as a unitary semantic property, may be differentially represented in concrete and abstract words. Studies that have explicitly examined the interaction of emotion and concreteness, however,…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Emotional Response, Language Processing, Language Usage
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Kousta, Stavroula-Thaleia; Vigliocco, Gabriella; Vinson, David P.; Andrews, Mark; Del Campo, Elena – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2011
Although much is known about the representation and processing of concrete concepts, knowledge of what abstract semantics might be is severely limited. In this article we first address the adequacy of the 2 dominant accounts (dual coding theory and the context availability model) put forward in order to explain representation and processing…
Descriptors: Semantics, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Response, Concept Formation