The effect of congruent emotional context on semantic memory during discourse comprehension
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7149862 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Qian Zhang (0009-0004-3866-2007, Institute of Psychology), Lin Li (0000-0003-2896-7988, Institute of Psychology), Xiaohong Yang (0000-0003-3806-7510, Renmin University of China, corresponding author), Yufang Yang (0000-0001-6978-2838, Institute of Psychology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 413-430 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cognition & Emotion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-9931 • E-ISSN: 1464-0600 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02699931.2024.2415491 |
| PMID | 39462758 |
| OpenAlex | W4403802332 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 108 |
This study examined the effect of emotional context on the semantic memory of subsequent emotional words during discourse comprehension in two eye-tracking experiments. Four-sentence discourses were used as experimental materials. The first three sentences established an emotional or neutral context, while the fourth contained an emotional target word consistent with the preceding emotional context's valence. The discourses were presented twice using the text change paradigm, where the target words were replaced with strongly - or weakly-related words during the second presentation. Thus, four conditions were included in the present study: Emotional-strongly-related, Emotional-weakly-related, Neutral-strongly-related and Neutral-weakly-related. In Experiment 1, negative contexts and negative target words were used, whereas in Experiment 2, positive contexts and positive target words were used. The results revealed a semantic relatedness effect, whereby the strongly-related words have lower change detection accuracy, longer reading times and more fixations in both Experiments 1 and 2. Furthermore, across both experiments, the magnitude of the semantic relatedness effect was greater in the emotionally congruent contexts than in the neutral contexts. These results suggest that emotional context could increase efforts to change the discrimination of subsequent words and demonstrate an important role of emotional context on semantic memory during discourse processing
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Comprehension · Linguistics · Semantic memory · Action Observation and Synchronization · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology
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| Highly cited | No |