Author, as appears in the article.: Ferre, Pilar; Ventura, David; Comesana, Montserrat; Fraga, Isabel;
Department: Psicologia
URV's Author/s: Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar
Keywords: Translation task Novel vocabulary learning Lexical decision Emotional words Concreteness novel vocabulary learning lexical decision emotional words concreteness
Abstract: A processing advantage for emotional words relative to neutral words has been widely demonstrated in the monolingual domain (e.g., Kuperman et al., 2014). It is also well-known that, in bilingual speakers who have a certain degree of proficiency in their second language, the effects of the affective content of words on cognition are not restricted to the native language (e.g., Ferré et al., 2010). The aim of the present study was to test whether this facilitatory effect can also be obtained during the very early stages of word acquisition. In the context of a novel word learning paradigm, participants were trained on a set of Basque words by associating them to their Spanish translations. Words' concreteness and affective valence were orthogonally manipulated. Immediately after the learning phase and 1 week later, participants were tested in a Basque go-no go lexical decision task as well as in a translation task in which they had to provide the Spanish translation of the Basque words. A similar pattern of results was found across tasks and sessions, revealing main effects of concreteness and emotional content as well as an interaction between both factors. Thus, the emotional content facilitated the acquisition of abstract, but not concrete words, in the new language, with a more reliable effect for negative words than for positive ones. The results are discussed in light of the embodied theoretical view of semantic representation proposed by Kousta et al. (2011).
Thematic Areas: Saúde coletiva Psychology, multidisciplinary Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology (all) Psychology Psicología Nutrição Medicina ii Medicina i Linguística e literatura Interdisciplinar General psychology Filosofía Ensino Engenharias iv Enfermagem Educação física Educação Economia Ciencias sociales Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Ciência da computação Biotecnología Biodiversidade Astronomia / física Artes Administração pública e de empresas, ciências contábeis e turismo
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-3192-0040
Record's date: 2023-10-07
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00976/full
Papper original source: Frontiers In Psychology. 6 (976):
APA: Ferre, Pilar; Ventura, David; Comesana, Montserrat; Fraga, Isabel; (2015). The role of emotionality in the acquisition of new concrete and abstract words. Frontiers In Psychology, 6(976), -. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00976
Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Article's DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00976
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2015
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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