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Research paper thumbnail of Release From Proactive Interference Using Emotion and Emotion-Laden Words

Research paper thumbnail of How Do Foreign Language Learners Process L2 Emotion Words in Silent Reading? An Eye-Tracking Study

Languages, May 4, 2023

This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY

Research paper thumbnail of An overview of semantic processing in bilinguals: Methods and findings

Among the various levels of linguistic processing that characterize human language, semantics is ... more Among the various levels of linguistic processing that characterize human language, semantics is the area that is most concerned with the representation and processing of meaning. If an individual possesses knowledge of multiple languages, the ways in which

Research paper thumbnail of The Distinctiveness of Emotion Words: Does It Hold for Foreign Language Learners? The Case of Arab EFL Learners

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Apr 19, 2018

Empirical evidence has recently been provided for the distinctiveness of emotion words as compare... more Empirical evidence has recently been provided for the distinctiveness of emotion words as compared to abstract and concrete words for monolinguals, calling for a reconsideration of the relation between emotion and language. The present study investigates whether the distinctiveness of emotion words among monolinguals holds for foreign language learners. To this end, three groups (n = 120 per group) of late Arabic-English bilinguals who learned English as a foreign language completed tasks including free recall, rating, and discrete word association. One group completed the tasks in Arabic while the other two groups, representing two levels of foreign language exposure, completed the tasks in English. Planned comparisons indicated the distinctiveness of emotion words in the participants' first and foreign languages in the free recall and rating tasks while no significant differences were found in the word association task. The results are discussed in light of the existing literature and relevant theoretical models.

Research paper thumbnail of 9. Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Emotion-Laden and Emotion Words in Monolingual and Bilingual Memory

Multilingual Matters eBooks, Dec 31, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Emotion Word Type and Affective Valence Priming at a Long Stimulus Onset Asynchrony

Language and Speech, Aug 3, 2016

As the division between emotion and emotion-laden words has been viewed as controversial by, for ... more As the division between emotion and emotion-laden words has been viewed as controversial by, for example, Kousta and colleagues, the current study attempted a replication and extension of findings previously described by Kazanas and Altarriba. In their findings, Kazanas and Altarriba reported significant differences in response times (RTs) and priming effects between emotion and emotion-laden words, with faster RTs and larger priming effects with emotion words than with emotion-laden words. These findings were consistent across unmasked (Experiment 1) and masked (Experiment 2) versions of a lexical decision task, where participants either explicitly or implicitly processed the prime words of each prime-target word pair. Findings from Experiment 2 have been previously replicated by Kazanas and Altarriba with a Spanish–English bilingual sample, when tested in English, the participants’ functionally dominant language. The current study was designed to extend these previous findings, using a l000-ms stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA), which was longer than the 250-ms SOA originally used by Kazanas and Altarriba. Findings from the current study supported the division between emotion and emotion-laden words, as they replicated those previously described by Kazanas and Altarriba. In addition, the current study determined that negative words were processed significantly slower in this experiment, with a long SOA (replicating findings by Rossell and Nobre).

Research paper thumbnail of Research on Emotion: From Introspection to Outward Perception

Research paper thumbnail of Emotion moderates translation production in proficient bilingual speakers

Research paper thumbnail of The influence of emotion word type on the repetition blindness effect

Research paper thumbnail of Constraints on Cross-Language Semantic and Translation Priming in Spanish-English Bilinguals

Research paper thumbnail of 4. An Overview of Semantic Processing in Bilinguals: Methods and Findings

Multilingual Matters eBooks, Dec 31, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Predators as Attention-Grabbing

Springer eBooks, Nov 25, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Distractor Task Influences the Modality Effect in False Recall

Research paper thumbnail of Bilingualism, Culture, and Executive Functions: Is There a Relationship?

Languages

The relationship between executive functions (EF) and bilingualism has dominated debate in the fi... more The relationship between executive functions (EF) and bilingualism has dominated debate in the field. This debate was characterised by optimism for a bilingual advantage until the last decade, when a steady stream of articles reported failure to find a consistently positive effect for bilingualism. In addition to addressing concerns about study quality, this turn of events has spurred research into other variables that may explain the conflicting findings. While recent studies have focused on sociodemographic variables and interactional contexts such as age, code-switching frequency, and socioeconomic class to account for various group and individual differences, the impact of culture is seldom scrutinised. This paper examines the possible effect of culture among bilingual studies on EF by first contextualising how bilingual EF are studied and outlining the absence of culture as a macro variable, followed by a discussion on how culture and language are often conflated. This paper di...

Research paper thumbnail of Do You Control Your Emotions or Do Your Emotions Control You: Perceived Emotional Control Over Negative and Positive Emotion Words

Research paper thumbnail of 9. Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Emotion-Laden and Emotion Words in Monolingual and Bilingual Memory

Research paper thumbnail of Evolutionary Cognitive Psychology

Research paper thumbnail of The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism

Research paper thumbnail of Recall of Cheaters

Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of An Investigation of Sex Differences, Implicit Memory, and Perceptual Identification in the Survival Memory Paradigm

Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2019

Robust support has been found for a survival processing effect on memory when information is enco... more Robust support has been found for a survival processing effect on memory when information is encoded for its fitness relevance (Nairne et al. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 33:263-273, 2007). However, support for this effect has been limited to forms of memory that require intentional, explicit retrieval processes. Thus far, the literature has failed to identify the effect in implicit, automatic memory using conceptual and perceptual production tasks (

Research paper thumbnail of Release From Proactive Interference Using Emotion and Emotion-Laden Words

Research paper thumbnail of How Do Foreign Language Learners Process L2 Emotion Words in Silent Reading? An Eye-Tracking Study

Languages, May 4, 2023

This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY

Research paper thumbnail of An overview of semantic processing in bilinguals: Methods and findings

Among the various levels of linguistic processing that characterize human language, semantics is ... more Among the various levels of linguistic processing that characterize human language, semantics is the area that is most concerned with the representation and processing of meaning. If an individual possesses knowledge of multiple languages, the ways in which

Research paper thumbnail of The Distinctiveness of Emotion Words: Does It Hold for Foreign Language Learners? The Case of Arab EFL Learners

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Apr 19, 2018

Empirical evidence has recently been provided for the distinctiveness of emotion words as compare... more Empirical evidence has recently been provided for the distinctiveness of emotion words as compared to abstract and concrete words for monolinguals, calling for a reconsideration of the relation between emotion and language. The present study investigates whether the distinctiveness of emotion words among monolinguals holds for foreign language learners. To this end, three groups (n = 120 per group) of late Arabic-English bilinguals who learned English as a foreign language completed tasks including free recall, rating, and discrete word association. One group completed the tasks in Arabic while the other two groups, representing two levels of foreign language exposure, completed the tasks in English. Planned comparisons indicated the distinctiveness of emotion words in the participants' first and foreign languages in the free recall and rating tasks while no significant differences were found in the word association task. The results are discussed in light of the existing literature and relevant theoretical models.

Research paper thumbnail of 9. Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Emotion-Laden and Emotion Words in Monolingual and Bilingual Memory

Multilingual Matters eBooks, Dec 31, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Emotion Word Type and Affective Valence Priming at a Long Stimulus Onset Asynchrony

Language and Speech, Aug 3, 2016

As the division between emotion and emotion-laden words has been viewed as controversial by, for ... more As the division between emotion and emotion-laden words has been viewed as controversial by, for example, Kousta and colleagues, the current study attempted a replication and extension of findings previously described by Kazanas and Altarriba. In their findings, Kazanas and Altarriba reported significant differences in response times (RTs) and priming effects between emotion and emotion-laden words, with faster RTs and larger priming effects with emotion words than with emotion-laden words. These findings were consistent across unmasked (Experiment 1) and masked (Experiment 2) versions of a lexical decision task, where participants either explicitly or implicitly processed the prime words of each prime-target word pair. Findings from Experiment 2 have been previously replicated by Kazanas and Altarriba with a Spanish–English bilingual sample, when tested in English, the participants’ functionally dominant language. The current study was designed to extend these previous findings, using a l000-ms stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA), which was longer than the 250-ms SOA originally used by Kazanas and Altarriba. Findings from the current study supported the division between emotion and emotion-laden words, as they replicated those previously described by Kazanas and Altarriba. In addition, the current study determined that negative words were processed significantly slower in this experiment, with a long SOA (replicating findings by Rossell and Nobre).

Research paper thumbnail of Research on Emotion: From Introspection to Outward Perception

Research paper thumbnail of Emotion moderates translation production in proficient bilingual speakers

Research paper thumbnail of The influence of emotion word type on the repetition blindness effect

Research paper thumbnail of Constraints on Cross-Language Semantic and Translation Priming in Spanish-English Bilinguals

Research paper thumbnail of 4. An Overview of Semantic Processing in Bilinguals: Methods and Findings

Multilingual Matters eBooks, Dec 31, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Predators as Attention-Grabbing

Springer eBooks, Nov 25, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Distractor Task Influences the Modality Effect in False Recall

Research paper thumbnail of Bilingualism, Culture, and Executive Functions: Is There a Relationship?

Languages

The relationship between executive functions (EF) and bilingualism has dominated debate in the fi... more The relationship between executive functions (EF) and bilingualism has dominated debate in the field. This debate was characterised by optimism for a bilingual advantage until the last decade, when a steady stream of articles reported failure to find a consistently positive effect for bilingualism. In addition to addressing concerns about study quality, this turn of events has spurred research into other variables that may explain the conflicting findings. While recent studies have focused on sociodemographic variables and interactional contexts such as age, code-switching frequency, and socioeconomic class to account for various group and individual differences, the impact of culture is seldom scrutinised. This paper examines the possible effect of culture among bilingual studies on EF by first contextualising how bilingual EF are studied and outlining the absence of culture as a macro variable, followed by a discussion on how culture and language are often conflated. This paper di...

Research paper thumbnail of Do You Control Your Emotions or Do Your Emotions Control You: Perceived Emotional Control Over Negative and Positive Emotion Words

Research paper thumbnail of 9. Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Emotion-Laden and Emotion Words in Monolingual and Bilingual Memory

Research paper thumbnail of Evolutionary Cognitive Psychology

Research paper thumbnail of The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism

Research paper thumbnail of Recall of Cheaters

Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of An Investigation of Sex Differences, Implicit Memory, and Perceptual Identification in the Survival Memory Paradigm

Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2019

Robust support has been found for a survival processing effect on memory when information is enco... more Robust support has been found for a survival processing effect on memory when information is encoded for its fitness relevance (Nairne et al. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 33:263-273, 2007). However, support for this effect has been limited to forms of memory that require intentional, explicit retrieval processes. Thus far, the literature has failed to identify the effect in implicit, automatic memory using conceptual and perceptual production tasks (