Iconicity in word learning and beyond: A critical review

AKS Nielsen, M Dingemanse - Language and speech, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Interest in iconicity (the resemblance-based map** between aspects of form and
meaning) is in the midst of a resurgence, and a prominent focus in the field has been the …

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

AM Jacobs - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Speech emotion recognition based on formant characteristics feature extraction and phoneme type convergence

ZT Liu, A Rehman, M Wu, WH Cao, M Hao - Information Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has numerous applications including human-
robot interaction, online gaming, and health care assistance. While deep learning-based …

The scientific study of literary experience: sampling the state of the art

AM Jacobs - Scientific Study of Literature, 2015 - jbe-platform.com
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 …

The fictive brain: neurocognitive correlates of engagement in literature

AM Jacobs, RM Willems - Review of General Psychology, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Why'piss' is ruder than'pee'? The role of sound in affective meaning making

A Aryani, M Conrad, D Schmidtke, A Jacobs - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
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 …

Enjoying art: an evolutionary perspective on the esthetic experience from emotion elicitors

F Serrao, A Chirico, A Gabbiadini, A Gallace… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The ubiquity of human art prompted evolutionary psychologists to explore its origins as a
potential adaptation to the environment. Here we focus on emotionally charged art and posit …

10 years of BAWLing into affective and aesthetic processes in reading: what are the echoes?

AM Jacobs, MLH Võ, BB Briesemeister… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Reading is not only “cold” information processing, but involves affective and aesthetic
processes that go far beyond what current models of word recognition, sentence processing …

The gutenberg english poetry corpus: exemplary quantitative narrative analyses

AM Jacobs - Frontiers in Digital Humanities, 2018 - frontiersin.org
This paper describes a corpus of about 3,000 English literary texts with about 250 million
words extracted from the Gutenberg project that span a range of genres from both fiction and …

Evaluation of poetic creativity: Predictors and the role of expertise—A multilevel approach.

S Chaudhuri, M Dooley, D Johnson… - … , Creativity, and the …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Poetry is one of the most creative expressions of language, but how we evaluate the
creativity of a poem is not properly characterized. The present study investigated the role of …