Interaction of emotional and linguistic factors in lexical processing: evidence from Russian nouns | Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Filologiya – Tomsk State University Journal of Philology. 2018. № 52. DOI: 10.17223/19986645/52/2

Interaction of emotional and linguistic factors in lexical processing: evidence from Russian nouns

A great number of modern behavioral studies postulate the idea that the emotional content of verbal stimuli affects the speed of visual word recognition in different cognitive tasks, but emotional factors (e.g., emotional valence) are still not verified in current models of word recognition. Several studies were conducted on the material of English, but there is lack of experimental studies on the material of other languages. The present study aimed to reveal a word's emotional valence effect in automatic lexical processing using Russian lexical database ENRuN generated by D.V. Lyusin and T.A. Sysoeva. Two lexical decision tasks were conducted in 92 Russian speakers (N=44 in yes/no LDT; N=48 in go/no-go LDT). The experimental blocks were equal in two studies and comprised 120 Russian emotional nouns retrieved from the ENRuN database that were either positive (N=40), negative (N=40) or neutral (N=40), and 120 non-words. Using mixed-effects models a significant effect of a word's emotional valence was obtained: positive words were processed much faster than negative and neutral ones and negative words were processed much slower than positive and negative ones. This result could be interpreted in terms of attentional vigilance: heightened and/or extended attention to negative stimuli which would slow any decision (such as lexical decisions) on other aspects of the stimuli. The slight effects of emotional valence x word frequency and emotional valence x subjects' affectivity were also obtained. Positive emotional valence had stronger effect on low-frequency words than on high-frequency words. Subjects with positive affectivity had slower responses to positive words than subjects with negative affectivity. These results are close to the study conducted by V. Kuperman, Z. Estes, M. Brysbaert and A.B. Warriner on the material of English words, and give some empirical evidence from affective word processing in language other than English. Further behavioral studies of emotional valence effects could be aimed at verification of emotional valence x word frequency effects as well as other non-emotional effects in visual word recognition (e.g., age-of-acquisition, number of orthographic neighbors).

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визуальное распознавание слова, эмоциональная окраска слов, позитивный аффект, негативный аффект, visual word recognition, emotional valence, positive affect, negative affect

Authors

Name	Organization	E-mail
Vlasov Mikhail S.	Shukshin Altai State Humanities Pedagogical University	vlasov_mikhailo@mail.ru
Sychev Oleg A.	Shukshin Altai State Humanities Pedagogical University	osn1@mail.ru

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