Arthur M Jacobs

Biographic Data

ID260490
NAMEArthur M Jacobs
GIVEN NAMESArthur M
FAMILY NAMEJacobs
SIGNATUREJACOBS A M
AFFILIATIONSFreie Universität Berlin
ORCID0000-0002-7910-3955
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT40
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1952
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Once known, twice hedonic: Enjoying Shakespeare’s sonnets through rereading—A deep learning perspective

    Shuwei Xue, Jana Lüdtke et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Aesthetics…2025

  • Quantifying the faithfulness of poetry translations in four closely related Slavic languages

    Open AccessMartina Rybová, Arthur M Jacobs et al.ARTICLEDigital Scholarship in the…2025References: 47

    Translating poetry is notoriously difficult—some would claim impossible—because it inherently requires making triage decisions what to preserve and what to sacrifice if necessary. Both form and meaning contribute to the esthetic effects of the original, but translations that faithfully preserve the metrical versification principles of the original might struggle to fully preserve lexically conveyed meanings and connotations, and vice versa. Other…

  • Conflict Detection in Language Processing: Using Affect Control Theory to Predict Neural Correlates of Affective Incongruency in Social Interactions

    Open AccessGesche Schauenburg, Arash Aryani et al.ARTICLEKZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für…2024References: 59

    Affect control theory (ACT) is a sociological theory of meaning processing in social interactions. Meaning, according to ACT, derives from cultural institutions and situational affordances, having denotative (declarative) as well as connotative (affective) properties. Mathematical formalizations of ACT allow predictions of affective incongruency (in the terminology of ACT, deflection ), which arises from conflicting institutional and situational …

  • Shakespeare sonnet reading: An empirical study of emotional responses

    Open AccessOrsolya Papp-Zipernovszky, Anne Mangen et al.ARTICLELanguage and Literature…2022

    The present study combines literary theory and cognitive psychology to empirically explore some cognitive and emotional facets of poetry reading, exemplified by the reading of three Shakespeare sonnets. Specifically, predictions generated combining quantitative textual analysis according to the Neurocognitive Poetics model with qualitative textual analysis based on the Foregrounding assessment Matrix of sonnets no. 27, 60 and 66 are empirically t…

  • Handbook of Empirical Literary Studies

    Open AccessDonald Kuiken, Arthur M JacobsBOOKHandbook of Empirical Literary…2021

    This handbook reviews efforts to increase the use of empirical methods in studies of the aesthetic and social effects of literary reading. The reviewed research is expansive, including extension of familiar theoretical models to novel domains (e.g., educational settings); enlarging empirical efforts within under-represented research areas (e.g., child development); and broadening the range of applicable quantitative and qualitative methods (e.g.,…

  • What makes a metaphor literary? Answers from two computational studies

    Arthur M Jacobs, Annette KinderARTICLEMetaphor and Symbol2018

    In this article we investigate structural differences between “literary” metaphors created by renowned poets and “nonliterary” ones imagined by non-professional authors from Katz et al.’s 1988 corpus. We provide data from quantitative narrative analyses (QNA) of the altogether 464 metaphors on over 70 variables, including surface features like metaphor length, phonological features like sonority score, or syntactic-semantic features like sentence…

  • “The Brain Is the Prisoner of Thought”: A Machine-Learning Assisted Quantitative Narrative Analysis of Literary Metaphors for Use in Neurocognitive Poetics

    Arthur M Jacobs, Annette KinderARTICLEMetaphor and Symbol2017

    Two main goals of the emerging field of neurocognitive poetics are (a) the use of more natural and ecologically valid stimuli, tasks and contexts and (b) providing methods and models allowing to quantify distinctive features of verbal materials used in such tasks and contexts and their effects on readers responses. A natural key element of poetic language, metaphor, still is understudied insofar as relatively little empirical research looked at l…

  • Rhetoric, Neurocognitive Poetics, and the Aesthetics of Adaptation

    Pascal Nicklas, Arthur M JacobsARTICLEPoetics Today2017Cited by: 1References: 28

    Rhetorical effects in speech and writing have a great strategic importance in achieving the communicative end of being persuasive: they are key in the exertion of power through language. Persuasion occurs by cognitive-affective stimulation, relying on specific psychosomatic perceptual patterns which are used on all levels of speech reception in cultural and political contexts. This makes rhetorically conspicuous texts efficient as stimulus materi…

  • Visual Word Recognition, Neurocognitive Psychology of

    Open AccessArthur M Jacobs, Johannes C ZieglerCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Neurocognitive poetics: Methods and models for investigating the neuronal and cognitive-affective bases of literature reception

    Open AccessArthur M JacobsARTICLEFrontiers in Human Neuroscience2015

    A long tradition of research including classical rhetoric, esthetics and poetics theory, formalism and structuralism, as well as current perspectives in (neuro)cognitive poetics has investigated structural and functional aspects of literature reception. Despite a wealth of literature published in specialized journals like Poetics, however, still little is known about how the brain processes and creates literary and poetic texts. Still, such stimu…

  • Is personality modulated by language

    Open AccessGerlieke Veltkamp, G Marina Veltkamp et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2013

    We administered German and Spanish versions of the Neuroticism Extraversion Openness–Five-Factor Inventory personality inventory to two groups of late bilinguals (second-language learners) of these two languages. Regardless of individuals’ first language, both groups scored higher on Extraversion and Neuroticism when Spanish was the test language. In turn, scores on Agreeability were higher when German was used as the test language. The results a…

  • Emotional Valence: A Bipolar Continuum or Two Independent Dimensions

    Open AccessBenny B Briesemeister, Lars Kuchinke et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2012

    In contrast to standard models of emotional valence, which assume a bipolar valence dimension ranging from negative to positive valence with a neutral midpoint, the evaluative space model (ESM) proposes two independent positivity and negativity dimensions. Previous imaging studies suggest higher predictive power of the ESM when investigating the neural correlates of verbal stimuli. The present study investigates further assumptions on the behavio…

  • A Dual-Route Cascaded Model of Reading by Deaf Adults: Evidence for Grapheme to Viseme Conversion

    Eeva A Elliott, Mario Braun et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Deaf Studies and…2012

    There is an ongoing debate whether deaf individuals access phonology when reading, and if so, what impact the ability to access phonology might have on reading achievement. However, the debate so far has been theoretically unspecific on two accounts: (a) the phonological units deaf individuals may have of oral language have not been specified and (b) there seem to be no explicit cognitive models specifying how phonology and other factors operate …

  • The Word Frequency Effect: A Review of Recent Developments and Implications for the Choice of Frequency Estimates in German

    Marc Brysbaert, Matthias Buchmeier et al.ARTICLEExperimental Psychology2011

    We review recent evidence indicating that researchers in experimental psychology may have used suboptimal estimates of word frequency. Word frequency measures should be based on a corpus of at least 20 million words that contains language participants in psychology experiments are likely to have been exposed to. In addition, the quality of word frequency measures should be ascertained by correlating them with behavioral word processing data. When…

  • The Berlin Affective Word List Reloaded (Bawl-R)

    Open AccessMelissa L-H Võ, Melissa L H Võ et al.ARTICLEBehavior Research Methods2009

  • Processing of Syllables in Production and Recognition Tasks

    Open AccessPrisca Stenneken, Markus Conrad et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psycholinguistic…2007Cited by: 3References: 40

  • Dem Geist auf der Spur: Neurokognitive Methoden zur Messung von Lern- und Gedächtnisprozessen

    Arthur M Jacobs, Florian Hutzler et al.CHAPTERBiowissenschaft und Erziehungswisse…2006

    Zahlreiche aktuelle neurokognitive Untersuchungen deuten an, dass identifizierbare neuronale Netzwerke an wichtigen Prozessen beteiligt sind, die vielen schulischen und alltäglichen Lernaufgaben zugrunde liegen, insbesondere Informationsverarbeitungsvorgängen beim zielbezogenen und leistungsgerechten Umgang mit Buchstaben und Wörtern, Zahlen oder Bildern (Lesen, Rechnen, Objekterkennung). Im Vordergrund stehen dabei Fragen des Erwerbs und der Enk…

  • Martin, Thomas

    Arthur M Jacobs, Arthur JacobsCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Translation

    Arthur M Jacobs, Arthur JacobsCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • London (i)

    Nicholas Temperley, Philip Olleson et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Jonson, Ben

    Andrew J Sabol, Arthur M Jacobs et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Lloyd-Jones, David

    Arthur M Jacobs, Arthur Jacobs et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Wood, Sir Henry J(oseph) (opera)

    Arthur M Jacobs, Arthur JacobsCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Orthographic processing in visual word recognition: A multiple read-out model.

    Jonathan Grainger, Arthur M JacobsARTICLEPsychological Review1996

    A model of orthographic processing is described that postulates read-out from different information dimensions, determined by variable response criteria set on these dimensions. Performance in a perceptual identification task is simulated as the percentage of trials on which a noisy criterion set on the dimension of single word detector activity is reached. Two additional criteria set on the dimensions of total lexical activity and time from stim…

  • Henry J. Wood: Maker of the Proms

    Robert Anderson, Robert H Anderson et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times1994