Vicky T Lai

Datos Biográficos

ID118707
NOMBREVicky T Lai
NOMBRESVicky T
APELLIDOLai
FIRMALAI V T
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Arizona
ORCID0000-0001-6015-275X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS13
TOTAL DE CITAS3
TOTAL COMO AUTOR13
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2020
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H1

  • Impact of Presentation-Language and Self-Construal on Irony Interpretation in Spanish–English Bilinguals

    Open AccessValeria A Pfeifer, Matthias R Mehl et al.ARTICLEJournal of Language and Social…2025Referencias: 28

    This study investigated the role of self-construal and language background in irony interpretation. Prior research considered either cultural or language background, but not both. Spanish–English bilinguals ( N = 152) from the U.S. and Mexico rated stories containing ironic and literal statements in English and Spanish, then completed the Language History Questionnaire, Self-construal Scale, and Sarcasm-self-report scale (SSS). Results showed tha…

  • Dual aspectual opposition sensitizes speakers to event stage in conceptualization

    Open AccessAnna Kamenetski, Vicky T LaiARTICLELanguage and Cognition2025Citada por: 1Referencias: 46

    Grammatical aspect is a linguistic correlate of the temporal distribution of an event. However, aspect is not identical across languages. Crosslinguistic differences in mapping between aspect and basic temporal features such as event stage can reveal underlying language-specific criteria that guide event conceptualization. We investigated the relationship between grammatical aspect and event stage in conceptualizations of in-progress and complete…

  • Can irony regulate negative emotion? Evidence from behaviour and ERPs

    Valeria A Pfeifer, Jessica R Andrews-Hanna et al.ARTICLECognition & Emotion2025Citada por: 2Referencias: 33

    This study used ratings and event-related potentials (ERPs) to compare the mechanisms through which verbal irony and cognitive reappraisal mitigate negative emotion. Verbal irony is when the literal meaning of words contrasts with their intended meaning. Cognitive reappraisal is when we reconsider emotional stimuli to make them less intense. Our hypothesis was that cognitive reappraisal is a potential mechanism through which irony reduces negativ…

  • Metaphor processing is influenced by stimulus emotionality and task demands

    Open AccessLaura Baiocco, Valeria A Pfeifer et al.ARTICLEBrain and Language2025Referencias: 58

  • Narratives about Cancer

    Valeria A Pfeifer, Karen L Weihs et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2024

    Metaphors are pervasive in cancer discourse. However, little is known about how metaphor use develops over time within the same patient, and how metaphor use and its content relate to the mental health of the patient. Here, we analyzed metaphor use in personal essays written by breast cancer patients shortly after the time of diagnosis and nine months later, in relation to their depressive symptoms at both time points. Results show that metaphor …

  • Spatiotemporal characteristics of the neural representation of event concepts

    Open AccessRutvik H Desai, Chris Hackett et al.ARTICLEBrain and Language2023

  • Temporal features of concepts are grounded in time perception neural networks

    Open AccessKarim Johari, Vicky T Lai et al.ARTICLEBrain and Language2023

  • Negative affect increases reanalysis of conflicts between discourse context and world knowledge

    Open AccessVicky T Lai, Jos J A Van Berkum et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2022

    Introduction Mood is a constant in our daily life and can permeate all levels of cognition. We examined whether and how mood influences the processing of discourse content that is relatively neutral and not loaded with emotion. During discourse processing, readers have to constantly strike a balance between what they know in long term memory and what the current discourse is about. Our general hypothesis is that mood states would affect this bala…

  • Minding the manner

    Open AccessAnna Kamenetski, Vicky T Lai et al.ARTICLELanguage and Cognition2022

    Languages differ in the way motion events are encoded. In satellite-framed languages, motion verbs typically encode manner, while in verb-framed languages, path. We investigated the ways in which satellite-framed Dutch and verb-framed Turkish co-determine one’s attention to motion events in early bilinguals. In an EEG oddball paradigm, Turkish–Dutch bilinguals ( n = 25) and Dutch controls ( n = 27) watched short video clips of motion events, foll…

  • Do all facial emojis communicate emotion? The impact of facial emojis on perceived sender emotion and text processing

    Open AccessValeria A Pfeifer, Emma L Armstrong et al.ARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2022

  • Cursed Concepts

    Open AccessStanley A Donahoo, Valeria A Pfeifer et al.ARTICLEBrain and Language2022

  • Attention and regulation during emotional word comprehension in older adults

    Open AccessLi-Chuan Ku, John J B Allen et al.ARTICLEBrain and Language2022

  • The mental representation and social aspect of expressives

    Stanley A Donahoo, Vicky T LaiARTICLECognition & Emotion2020

    ). Behaviourally, swears were recognised slower than valence- and arousal- matched negative words, meaning that there is more to the expressive dimension than merely a heightened emotional state. In ERPs, both swears and negative words elicited a larger positivity (250-550 ms) than open-class neutral words. Later, swears elicited a larger late positivity (550-750 ms) than negative words. We associate the earlier positivity effect with attention d…