Manuel De Vega
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3076396 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Manuel De Vega |
| NOMBRES | Manuel |
| APELLIDO | De Vega |
| FIRMA | DE VEGA M |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidad de La Laguna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9596-1642 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1955 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Inhibitory states modulate the processing of negated concepts in existential sentences. Evidence from ERPs
The Reusing Inhibition for Negation (RIN) hypothesis proposes that linguistic negation recruits neural mechanisms involved in inhibitory control. Previous research has shown that processing existential negation can influence response inhibition. The present study examines the reciprocal relationship, testing whether inhibitory states modulate the processing of existential negation. In this event-related potentials (ERP) study, each trial began wi…
Obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression in university students
Early non-clinical obsessive-compulsive symptoms often disrupt young people’s social life in different ways and make the onset of clinical conditions more likely. Evidence shows frequent comorbidity between obsessive-compulsive symptoms and depression, suggesting that the former can start before depressive symptoms appear. However, the mechanisms that make this association more likely are unclear. This cross-sectional study examines whether (intr…
Exploring the impact of sentential negation on inhibitory motor networks
The embodied approach to language meaning suggests that negation with action verbs decreases activation of the negated concept, reflected in reduced motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). This study aims to explore how action negation influences inhibitory and facilitatory mechanisms within the primary motor cortex (M1) using paired-pulse TMS (ppTMS). We evaluated corticospinal excitability (CSE), short…
The negation-induced forgetting effect remains even after reducing associative interference
Recent research has provided evidence that negation processing recruits the neural network of response inhibition (de Vega et al., 2016). Furthermore, inhibition mechanisms also play a role in human memory. In two experiments, we aimed to assess how producing a negation in a verification task may impact long-term memory. Experiment 1 used the same memory paradigm as Mayo et al. (2014), consisting of several phases: first, reading a story describi…
Regional accents modulate perspective in geographical space
In this study, participants listened to first-person statements that mentioned a character who was approaching a geographical location close to (Tenerife, Canary Islands) or distant from the participant (Madrid, Spanish peninsula), pronounced with either the participants' local or a distal regional accent. Participants more often judged approaching statements as coherent when they refer to a close place pronounced with local accent or refer to a …
Inhibitory Mechanisms in the Processing of Negations
Negation is known to have inhibitory consequences for the information under its scope. However, how it produces such effects remains poorly understood. Recently, it has been proposed that negation processing might be implemented at the neural level by the recruitment of inhibitory and cognitive control mechanisms. On this line, this manuscript offers the hypothesis that negation reuses general-domain mechanisms that subserve inhibition in other n…
The Neurobiology of Lexical and Sentential Negation
Is negation inherently harder than affirmation? How does negation change the neural representation of a word meaning? Recent studies considering pragmatic aspects of language, largely neglected in early studies on negation, have challenged the view that negation involves an extra processing stage to modify, or recode, an affirmative representation initially activated. In consequence, researchers have sought to determine the earliest effects of ne…
Embodiment Effect on the Comprehension of Mandarin Manual Action Language
Neural Substrates of Counterfactual Emotions After Risky Decisions in Late Adolescents and Young Adults
Adolescents' neural substrates of emotional reactions to the consequences of risky decisions are poorly understood. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging study, 30 late adolescents and 30 young adults made risky and neutral decisions in social scenarios and received valenced outcomes. Negative outcomes in risky decisions eliciting regret, as compared with negative outcomes in neutral decisions eliciting disappointment, activated executive…
Do Causal and Concessive Connectives Guide Emotional Expectancies in Comprehension? A Double-Task Paradigm Using Emotional Icons
Continuity and discontinuity are sometimes marked in discourse by means of connectives. This study tested for the first time whether causal and concessive connectives induce expectations of emotional continuity and discontinuity, respectively. Using a novel double-task paradigm, participants first listened to an antecedent clause with a causal or concessive connective (“Because/Although the pupil studied a lot...”), followed by an emotional icon …
Discourse-based emotional consistency modulates early and middle components of event-related potentials
In this study, participants read stories describing emotional episodes with either a positive or negative valence (Experiment 1). Following each story, participants were exposed to short sentences referring to the protagonist, and the event-related potential (ERP) for each sentence's last word was recorded. Some sentences described the protagonist's emotion, either consistent or inconsistent with the story; others were neutral; and others involve…
Differences in continuity of force dynamics and emotional valence in sentences with causal and adversative connectives
This research analyses the semantics of Spanish sentences with causal or adversative connectives using force dynamics, emotional valence and subjectivity parameters. Participants were given stimulus sentences, each followed by a connective, and were asked to generate meaningful continuation sentences. For each stimulus sentence, four versions were offered, differing only in the connective (two causal and two adversative). Participants' responses …
En torno al criollismo
Symbols and EmbodimentDebates on meaning and cognition
1. Framing the debate 2. The limits of covariation 3. Body and symbol in AutoTutor: conversations that are responsive to the learners' cognitive and emotional states 4. Symbolism, embodied cognition and the broader debate 5. What brain imaging can tell us about embodied meaning 6. Grounding language in the brain 7. Symbols and embodiment from the perspective of a neural modeler 8. Symbol systems and perceptual representations 9. Experiential trac…
Figure and Ground in Temporal Sentences
Figure and Ground in Temporal Sentences
Multiclause sentences with the temporal adverbs whileor whenreferring to simultaneous events (e.g., “While [when] John was writing a letter, Mary comes into the room”) were compared in German and Spanish. Following Talmy (2001) Talmy, L. 2001. Toward a cognitive semantics. Concept structuring systems Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.. [Google Scholar], we assumed that the event in the main clause is the figure (F; the event to be located in time), and th…
From Gestural to Verbal Deixis
This study examined longitudinally how infants’ display of gestural and verbal deictic means to indicate targets is related to a certain target topology and to a specific mother attention pattern. Eight Spanish 1- and 2-year-olds and their mothers were observed every three months during one year, while performing routine activities. Results showed that the younger children usually pointed alone or combined with a vocalization to objects placed wi…
How Nouns and Prepositions Fit Together
Sentences involving a directional preposition and 2 nouns (e.g., "The dog is under the table") were sampled from 1 corpus in Spanish and 1 in German. Several sensory-motor features of the entities denoted by the nouns (animacy, countability, solidity, etc.) were coded. These features were then submitted to analyses using pairs of prepositions as binary dependent variables (e.g., above vs. below). In both languages, nouns naming objects with parti…
To know or not to know
Six experiments explored how readers take the protagonist's mental perspective in stories involving conflicting beliefs about a situation. Experiments 1. 2 and 3 demonstrated that readers with privileged information build emotional inferences corresponding to the protagonist's (wrong) beliefs. The time course of inferences was studied in Experiments 2, 4, 5, and 6. The results suggest that inferences related to the protagonist's beliefs are backw…
The Female Chronic Offender
Data from files on 1,076 incarcerated female felons were analyzed to provide answers for questions regarding female chronic offenders: (1) How similar are female chronic offenders to male chronics? (2) How do female chronic offenders compare with female non-chronics? and (3) Which variables were the most powerful discriminators between these female groups? The results indicated that: (1) Like male offenders, female chronics in comparison to non-c…
A study of female robbers in a Southern Correctional Institution
Further Note on Rule Utilization in Solutions of Abstract Picture-Analogy Problems
As a further test of a rule model of analogical reasoning, 24 problems from the Raven Progressive Matrices were given 93 Ss, run in a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial design in which there were two presentation intervals (20 vs 45 sec.), two stimulus conditions (the first two rows of each matrix were either present or absent), and two rule conditions (some Ss had access to E-generated rules). Over-all there were fewer errors with the longer interval, when the…
Visual Defects and Performance on Psychological Tests
The effects of children's visual defects on their psychological test performances have received little attention in the literature although their effects on achievement are well documented (e.g., Haines, 1955; Kephart et al., 1960). A study by Klauer (1962) indicated that although visually handicapped children do not differ significantly in IQ from normal children, those with severe handicaps had significantly reduced performance IQ's when these …
Correlates of Adult Locus of Control
Correlations between scores on the Adult Locus of Control Scale and a number of personality scales supported the hypothesis that the control scores are related to need achievement, anxiety, psychopathology, socioeconomic status, ethnic group membership, and intellectual ability. There was some evidence that locus of control scores are also related to teacher effectiveness
Rule Utilization in Solutions of Abstract Picture-Analogy Problems
Two experiments tested the hypothesis that rules are generated and applied in solving analogy problems by providing one group of Ss with the appropriate rules. Analogy problems from the Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Test were employed in Exp. I, and problems from the Raven Progressive Matrices were employed in Exp. II. The results from both experiments did not support the hypothesis. It was suggested that the possibility, that the cognitive proces…
Do Causal and Concessive Connectives Guide Emotional Expectancies in Comprehension? A Double-Task Paradigm Using Emotional Icons
Continuity and discontinuity are sometimes marked in discourse by means of connectives. This study tested for the first time whether causal and concessive connectives induce expectations of emotional continuity and discontinuity, respectively. Using a novel double-task paradigm, participants first listened to an antecedent clause with a causal or concessive connective (“Because/Although the pupil studied a lot...”), followed by an emotional icon …
To know or not to know
Six experiments explored how readers take the protagonist's mental perspective in stories involving conflicting beliefs about a situation. Experiments 1. 2 and 3 demonstrated that readers with privileged information build emotional inferences corresponding to the protagonist's (wrong) beliefs. The time course of inferences was studied in Experiments 2, 4, 5, and 6. The results suggest that inferences related to the protagonist's beliefs are backw…
Inhibitory Mechanisms in the Processing of Negations
Negation is known to have inhibitory consequences for the information under its scope. However, how it produces such effects remains poorly understood. Recently, it has been proposed that negation processing might be implemented at the neural level by the recruitment of inhibitory and cognitive control mechanisms. On this line, this manuscript offers the hypothesis that negation reuses general-domain mechanisms that subserve inhibition in other n…
How Nouns and Prepositions Fit Together
Sentences involving a directional preposition and 2 nouns (e.g., "The dog is under the table") were sampled from 1 corpus in Spanish and 1 in German. Several sensory-motor features of the entities denoted by the nouns (animacy, countability, solidity, etc.) were coded. These features were then submitted to analyses using pairs of prepositions as binary dependent variables (e.g., above vs. below). In both languages, nouns naming objects with parti…
Embodiment Effect on the Comprehension of Mandarin Manual Action Language
Neural Substrates of Counterfactual Emotions After Risky Decisions in Late Adolescents and Young Adults
Adolescents' neural substrates of emotional reactions to the consequences of risky decisions are poorly understood. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging study, 30 late adolescents and 30 young adults made risky and neutral decisions in social scenarios and received valenced outcomes. Negative outcomes in risky decisions eliciting regret, as compared with negative outcomes in neutral decisions eliciting disappointment, activated executive…
Differences in continuity of force dynamics and emotional valence in sentences with causal and adversative connectives
This research analyses the semantics of Spanish sentences with causal or adversative connectives using force dynamics, emotional valence and subjectivity parameters. Participants were given stimulus sentences, each followed by a connective, and were asked to generate meaningful continuation sentences. For each stimulus sentence, four versions were offered, differing only in the connective (two causal and two adversative). Participants' responses …
Negro children's performance on a discrimination task as a function of examiner race and verbal incentive
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Negro children's performance on a discrimination task as a function of examiner race and verbal incentive
Correlates of Adult Locus of Control
Correlations between scores on the Adult Locus of Control Scale and a number of personality scales supported the hypothesis that the control scores are related to need achievement, anxiety, psychopathology, socioeconomic status, ethnic group membership, and intellectual ability. There was some evidence that locus of control scores are also related to teacher effectiveness
Rule Utilization in Solutions of Abstract Picture-Analogy Problems
Two experiments tested the hypothesis that rules are generated and applied in solving analogy problems by providing one group of Ss with the appropriate rules. Analogy problems from the Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Test were employed in Exp. I, and problems from the Raven Progressive Matrices were employed in Exp. II. The results from both experiments did not support the hypothesis. It was suggested that the possibility, that the cognitive proces…
Visual Defects and Performance on Psychological Tests
The effects of children's visual defects on their psychological test performances have received little attention in the literature although their effects on achievement are well documented (e.g., Haines, 1955; Kephart et al., 1960). A study by Klauer (1962) indicated that although visually handicapped children do not differ significantly in IQ from normal children, those with severe handicaps had significantly reduced performance IQ's when these …
Further Note on Rule Utilization in Solutions of Abstract Picture-Analogy Problems
As a further test of a rule model of analogical reasoning, 24 problems from the Raven Progressive Matrices were given 93 Ss, run in a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial design in which there were two presentation intervals (20 vs 45 sec.), two stimulus conditions (the first two rows of each matrix were either present or absent), and two rule conditions (some Ss had access to E-generated rules). Over-all there were fewer errors with the longer interval, when the…
A study of female robbers in a Southern Correctional Institution
The Female Chronic Offender
Data from files on 1,076 incarcerated female felons were analyzed to provide answers for questions regarding female chronic offenders: (1) How similar are female chronic offenders to male chronics? (2) How do female chronic offenders compare with female non-chronics? and (3) Which variables were the most powerful discriminators between these female groups? The results indicated that: (1) Like male offenders, female chronics in comparison to non-c…
To know or not to know
Six experiments explored how readers take the protagonist's mental perspective in stories involving conflicting beliefs about a situation. Experiments 1. 2 and 3 demonstrated that readers with privileged information build emotional inferences corresponding to the protagonist's (wrong) beliefs. The time course of inferences was studied in Experiments 2, 4, 5, and 6. The results suggest that inferences related to the protagonist's beliefs are backw…
How Nouns and Prepositions Fit Together
Sentences involving a directional preposition and 2 nouns (e.g., "The dog is under the table") were sampled from 1 corpus in Spanish and 1 in German. Several sensory-motor features of the entities denoted by the nouns (animacy, countability, solidity, etc.) were coded. These features were then submitted to analyses using pairs of prepositions as binary dependent variables (e.g., above vs. below). In both languages, nouns naming objects with parti…
From Gestural to Verbal Deixis
This study examined longitudinally how infants’ display of gestural and verbal deictic means to indicate targets is related to a certain target topology and to a specific mother attention pattern. Eight Spanish 1- and 2-year-olds and their mothers were observed every three months during one year, while performing routine activities. Results showed that the younger children usually pointed alone or combined with a vocalization to objects placed wi…
Figure and Ground in Temporal Sentences
Figure and Ground in Temporal Sentences
Multiclause sentences with the temporal adverbs whileor whenreferring to simultaneous events (e.g., “While [when] John was writing a letter, Mary comes into the room”) were compared in German and Spanish. Following Talmy (2001) Talmy, L. 2001. Toward a cognitive semantics. Concept structuring systems Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.. [Google Scholar], we assumed that the event in the main clause is the figure (F; the event to be located in time), and th…
Symbols and EmbodimentDebates on meaning and cognition
1. Framing the debate 2. The limits of covariation 3. Body and symbol in AutoTutor: conversations that are responsive to the learners' cognitive and emotional states 4. Symbolism, embodied cognition and the broader debate 5. What brain imaging can tell us about embodied meaning 6. Grounding language in the brain 7. Symbols and embodiment from the perspective of a neural modeler 8. Symbol systems and perceptual representations 9. Experiential trac…
Discourse-based emotional consistency modulates early and middle components of event-related potentials
In this study, participants read stories describing emotional episodes with either a positive or negative valence (Experiment 1). Following each story, participants were exposed to short sentences referring to the protagonist, and the event-related potential (ERP) for each sentence's last word was recorded. Some sentences described the protagonist's emotion, either consistent or inconsistent with the story; others were neutral; and others involve…
Differences in continuity of force dynamics and emotional valence in sentences with causal and adversative connectives
This research analyses the semantics of Spanish sentences with causal or adversative connectives using force dynamics, emotional valence and subjectivity parameters. Participants were given stimulus sentences, each followed by a connective, and were asked to generate meaningful continuation sentences. For each stimulus sentence, four versions were offered, differing only in the connective (two causal and two adversative). Participants' responses …
En torno al criollismo
Do Causal and Concessive Connectives Guide Emotional Expectancies in Comprehension? A Double-Task Paradigm Using Emotional Icons
Continuity and discontinuity are sometimes marked in discourse by means of connectives. This study tested for the first time whether causal and concessive connectives induce expectations of emotional continuity and discontinuity, respectively. Using a novel double-task paradigm, participants first listened to an antecedent clause with a causal or concessive connective (“Because/Although the pupil studied a lot...”), followed by an emotional icon …
Neural Substrates of Counterfactual Emotions After Risky Decisions in Late Adolescents and Young Adults
Adolescents' neural substrates of emotional reactions to the consequences of risky decisions are poorly understood. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging study, 30 late adolescents and 30 young adults made risky and neutral decisions in social scenarios and received valenced outcomes. Negative outcomes in risky decisions eliciting regret, as compared with negative outcomes in neutral decisions eliciting disappointment, activated executive…
Embodiment Effect on the Comprehension of Mandarin Manual Action Language
The Neurobiology of Lexical and Sentential Negation
Is negation inherently harder than affirmation? How does negation change the neural representation of a word meaning? Recent studies considering pragmatic aspects of language, largely neglected in early studies on negation, have challenged the view that negation involves an extra processing stage to modify, or recode, an affirmative representation initially activated. In consequence, researchers have sought to determine the earliest effects of ne…
Inhibitory Mechanisms in the Processing of Negations
Negation is known to have inhibitory consequences for the information under its scope. However, how it produces such effects remains poorly understood. Recently, it has been proposed that negation processing might be implemented at the neural level by the recruitment of inhibitory and cognitive control mechanisms. On this line, this manuscript offers the hypothesis that negation reuses general-domain mechanisms that subserve inhibition in other n…
Regional accents modulate perspective in geographical space
In this study, participants listened to first-person statements that mentioned a character who was approaching a geographical location close to (Tenerife, Canary Islands) or distant from the participant (Madrid, Spanish peninsula), pronounced with either the participants' local or a distal regional accent. Participants more often judged approaching statements as coherent when they refer to a close place pronounced with local accent or refer to a …
The negation-induced forgetting effect remains even after reducing associative interference
Recent research has provided evidence that negation processing recruits the neural network of response inhibition (de Vega et al., 2016). Furthermore, inhibition mechanisms also play a role in human memory. In two experiments, we aimed to assess how producing a negation in a verification task may impact long-term memory. Experiment 1 used the same memory paradigm as Mayo et al. (2014), consisting of several phases: first, reading a story describi…
Exploring the impact of sentential negation on inhibitory motor networks
The embodied approach to language meaning suggests that negation with action verbs decreases activation of the negated concept, reflected in reduced motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). This study aims to explore how action negation influences inhibitory and facilitatory mechanisms within the primary motor cortex (M1) using paired-pulse TMS (ppTMS). We evaluated corticospinal excitability (CSE), short…
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