How does emotional content affect lexical processing?

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 737-746

  Vinson, David ^a   Ponari, Marta ^a   Vigliocco, Gabriella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lexical decision; Valence; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL CONTENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LEXICAL PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORD RECOGNITION;

AROUSAL; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84896544834     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2013.851068     Document Type: Article

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