Are there similarities between emotional and familiarity-based processing in visual word recognition?

Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Lars Kuchinke, Christina J. MuellerAbstractPrevious ERP research revealed emotion effects on visual word processing in early time windows (P1) and during later evaluative processing (LPC). In both time windows interactions with word familiarity measures have been reported.Using an evaluative conditioning paradigm participants learned to associate meaningless pseudowords with neutral or negative valence. In addition, one set of pseudowords was learned three times as often as the others in order to manipulate familiarity.Behavioral results confirmed that evaluative conditioning was effective. Small effects of emotion on P1 and of overall conditioning on the LPC were visible, while familiarity only modulat...

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