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 …

A growing body of literature shows that the emotional content of verbal material affects
reading, wherein emotional words are given processing priority compared to neutral words …

There is growing interest in the potential benefits of mindfulness meditation practices in
terms of counteracting some of the cognitive effects associated with aging. Pursuing this …

We investigated whether the effects of valence and arousal on emotional word processing
are modulated by concreteness using event-related potentials (ERPs). The stimuli included …

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

Emotional bias, which describes human's asymmetric processing of emotional stimuli,
consists of negativity bias (Increased response to negative over positive stimuli) and …

This work presents a large lexical decision mega-study in Spanish, with 918 participants and
7500 words, focusing on emotional content and individual differences. The main objective …

We investigated the interplay between arousal and valence in the early processing of
affective words. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants read …

In this study, we used event-related potentials to examine how different dimensions of
emotion—valence and arousal—influence different stages of word processing under …