Emotional language processing: How mood affects integration processes during discourse comprehension

Brain and Language

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 199-210

  Egidi, Giovanna ^a   Nusbaum, Howard C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Discourse; Language; Mood congruence; Negativity bias

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; STORYTELLING; TELEVISION VIEWING; VIDEORECORDING;

AFFECT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84865538035     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.12.008     Document Type: Article

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