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 …

Standard neurocognitive models of language processing have tended to obviate the need
for incorporating emotion processes, while affective neuroscience theories have typically …

Event-related potentials (ERPs) have been used for decades to study perception, cognition,
emotion, neurological and psychiatric disorders, and lifespan development. ERPs consist of …

A growing body of literature investigating the neural correlates of emotion word processing
has emerged in recent years. Written words have been shown to represent a suitable means …

Interest in the neuroscience of emotion has increased dramatically over the course of the
last two decades. The rapid growth and popularity, however, have come with a definitional …

Emotional words are preferentially processed during silent reading. Here, we investigate to
what extent different components of the visual evoked potential, namely the P1, N1, the early …

Background The WHO has raised concerns about the psychological consequences of the
current COVID-19 pandemic, negatively affecting health across societies, cultures and age …

The emotional content of stimuli influences cognitive performance. In two experiments, we
investigated the time course and mechanisms of emotional influences on visual word …

This study presents the adaptation of the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW; Bradley
& Lang, 1999a) for European Portuguese (EP). The EP adaptation of the ANEW was based …

Lexical decisions to high-and low-arousal negative words and to low-arousal neutral and
positive words were examined in an event-related potentials (ERP) study. Reaction times to …