Emotion effects survive non-standard orthographic representations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7149937 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Hatzidaki (0000-0001-5148-500X, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, corresponding author), Mikel Santesteban (0000-0003-3982-6400, University of the Basque Country) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1568-1575 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-03 |
| 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 | 10.1080/02699931.2024.2362381 |
| PMID | 38869967 |
| OpenAlex | W4399624700 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 24 |
"butterfly" in Greek) may influence word processing, particularly visual word recognition and access to affective connotations. 120 Greek native speakers were tested on a lexical decision task, in which script (Greeklish vs. Greek) and valence (positive vs. negative vs. neutral) were manipulated within participants. Words were matched for word class, frequency, concreteness, length, number of syllables and orthographic neighbourhood. Emotional words differed from neutral ones in valence and arousal. Results yielded faster response times for words written in the standard script (Greek) than the non-standard script (Greeklish). Moreover, regardless of script, response times were negatively correlated with the words' valence, with slowest responses for negative words and fastest for positive ones, suggesting that positive content accelerates lexical access, whereas negative content slows it down. To sum up, although script type was found to affect word recognition, activation of and access to emotional content seemed to resist non-standard characteristics of visual word processing
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Concreteness · Lexical decision task · Linguistics · Orthographic projection · Referent · Word recognition · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Artificial Intelligence
Emotion words, regardless of polarity, have a processing advantage over neutral words
Emotion and language
Words in the brain's language
Human emotion and memory
A distributed, developmental model of word recognition and naming.
Automatic vigilance for negative words is categorical and general
Automatic vigilance
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |