Emotional valence is predominately conveyed in social interactions by words and facial
expressions. The existence of broad biases which favor more efficient processing of positive …

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 …

Abstract concepts are often embodied through metaphor. For example, we talk about moving
through time in metaphorical terms, as if we were moving through space, allowing us to'look …

In this state-of-the-art review, I start with an illustrative example of behavioral data collected
during the reading of a love poem reflecting one of many aspects that form the object of the …

Fiction is vital to our being. Many people enjoy engaging with fiction every day. Here we
focus on literary reading as 1 instance of fiction consumption from a cognitive neuroscience …

Two computational studies provide different sentiment analyses for text segments
(eg,“fearful” passages) and figures (eg,“Voldemort”) from the Harry Potter books …

Previous studies suggested that the emotional connotation of single words automatically
recruits attention. We investigated the potential of words to induce emotional engagement …

Most language users agree that some words sound harsh (eg grotesque) whereas others
sound soft and pleasing (eg lagoon). While this prominent feature of human language has …

Movement perception and its role in aesthetic experience have been often studied, within
empirical aesthetics, in relation to the human body. No such specificity has been defined in …

We investigate the relation between general affective meaning and the use of particular
phonological segments in poems, presenting a novel quantitative measure to assess the …