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Calvillo-Torres R, Haro J, Ferré P, Poch C, Hinojosa JA. Sound symbolic associations in Spanish emotional words: affective dimensions and discrete emotions. Cogn Emot 2024:1-17. [PMID: 38660751 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2024.2345377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2023] [Accepted: 04/16/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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Sound symbolism refers to non-arbitrary associations between word forms and meaning, such as those observed for some properties of sounds and size or shape. Recent evidence suggests that these connections extend to emotional concepts. Here we investigated two types of non-arbitrary relationships. Study 1 examined whether iconicity scores (i.e. resemblance-based mapping between aspects of a word's form and its meaning) for words can be predicted from ratings in the affective dimensions of valence and arousal and/or the discrete emotions of happiness, anger, fear, disgust and sadness. Words denoting negative concepts were more likely to have more iconic word forms. Study 2 explored whether statistical regularities in single phonemes (i.e. systematicity) predicted ratings in affective dimensions and/or discrete emotions. Voiceless (/p/, /t/) and voiced plosives (/b/, /d/, /g/) were related to high arousing words, whereas high arousing negative words tended to include fricatives (/s/, /z/). Hissing consonants were also more likely to occur in words denoting all negative discrete emotions. Additionally, words conveying certain discrete emotions included specific phonemes. Overall, our data suggest that emotional features might explain variations in iconicity and provide new insight about phonemic patterns showing sound symbolic associations with the affective properties of words.
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Affiliation(s)
- Rocío Calvillo-Torres
- Departamento de Psicología Experimental, Procesos Cognitivos y Logopedia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Departament de Psicologia and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- Departament de Psicologia and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Nebrija en Cognición (CINC), Universidad Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
- Departamento de Educación, Universidad de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Psicología Experimental, Procesos Cognitivos y Logopedia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Nebrija en Cognición (CINC), Universidad Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Ferré P, Guasch M, Stadthagen-González H, Hinojosa JA, Fraga I, Marín J, Pérez-Sánchez MÁ. What makes a word a good representative of the category of "emotion"? The role of feelings and interoception. Emotion 2024; 24:745-758. [PMID: 37768572 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/29/2023]
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The words we use to describe emotions vary in terms of prototypicality; that is, some of these words may be more representative of the semantic category of emotion than others (e.g., anger refers more clearly to an emotion than boredom). Based on a multicomponential conception of emotions, the aim of the present study was to examine the contribution of several variables to emotion prototypicality. Some of those variables are related to the distinct components of emotions: evaluation, action, body expression, internal body sensations (interoception), and feelings. Other variables are related to the concreteness/abstractness distinction: sensory experience, social interaction, thought, and morality. We collected ratings for these variables for a large set of words (1,286) which varied in emotion prototypicality. A regression analysis revealed that the variables that most contributed to emotion prototypicality were feelings and interoception. Furthermore, a factor analysis identified two underlying factors: socioemotional polarity and emotional experience. The scores of each word in both factors were used to create a two-dimensional space and a density plot which provides relevant information about the organization of emotion concepts in memory. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Pilar Ferré
- Departament de Psicologia, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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- Departament de Psicologia, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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- Departamento de Psicologia Experimental, Procesos Cognitivos y Logopedia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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- Departmento de Psicologia Social, Psicologia Basica y Metodologia, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
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- Departamento de Psicologia Basica y Metodologia, Universidad de Murcia
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Duñabeitia JA, Ferré P, Fraga I, Santesteban M. Editorial: Community series: Spanish Psycholinguistics. Front Psychol 2024; 15:1375105. [PMID: 38440237 PMCID: PMC10910064 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1375105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2024] [Accepted: 02/06/2024] [Indexed: 03/06/2024] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Jon Andoni Duñabeitia
- Centro de Investigación Nebrija en Cognición, Facultad de Lenguas y Educación, Nebrija University, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Psicología, Rovira I Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain
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- Cognitive Processes and Behavior Research Group, Department of Social Psychology, Basic Psychology, and Methodology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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Betancourt ÁA, Guasch M, Ferré P. What distinguishes emotion-label words from emotion-laden words? The characterization of affective meaning from a multi-componential conception of emotions. Front Psychol 2024; 15:1308421. [PMID: 38323162 PMCID: PMC10844498 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1308421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2023] [Accepted: 01/09/2024] [Indexed: 02/08/2024] Open
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Past research that distinguishes between affective and neutral words has predominantly relied on two-dimensional models of emotion focused on valence and arousal. However, these two dimensions cannot differentiate between emotion-label words (e.g., fear) and emotion-laden words (e.g., death). In the current study, we aimed to determine the unique affective characteristics that differentiate emotion-label, emotion-laden, and neutral words. Therefore, apart from valence and arousal, we considered different affective features of multi-componential models of emotion: action, assessment, expression, feeling, and interoception. The study materials included 800 Spanish words (104 emotion-label words, 340 emotion-laden words, and 356 neutral words). To examine the differences between each word type, we carried out a Principal Component Analysis and a Random Forest Classifier technique. Our results indicate that these words are characterized more precisely when the two-dimensional approach is combined with multi-componential models. Specifically, our analyses revealed that feeling, interoception and valence are key features in accurately differentiating between emotion-label, emotion-laden, and neutral words.
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Ćoso B, Guasch M, Bogunović I, Ferré P, Hinojosa JA. CROWD-5e: A Croatian psycholinguistic database of affective norms for five discrete emotions. Behav Res Methods 2023; 55:4018-4034. [PMID: 36307625 DOI: 10.3758/s13428-022-02003-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The present study introduces affective norms for a set of 3022 Croatian words on five discrete emotions: happiness, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust. The words were rated by 1239 Croatian native speakers. Each participant rated 251 or 252 words for one discrete emotion on a five-point Likert scale. The analyses revealed a significant relationship between discrete emotions, emotional dimensions (valence and arousal), and other psycholinguistic properties of words. In addition, small sex differences in discrete emotion ratings were found. Finally, the analysis of the distribution of words among discrete emotions allowed a distinction between "pure" words (i.e., those mostly related to a single emotion) and "mixed" words (i.e., those related to more than one emotion). The new database extends the existing Croatian affective norms collected from a dimensional conception of emotions, providing the necessary resource for future experimental investigation in Croatian within the theoretical framework of discrete emotions.
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- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
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- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- Centro de Investigación Nebrija en Cognición (CINC), Universidad Nebrija, Madrid, Spain.
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Zheng R, Zhang M, Guo T, Guasch M, Ferré P. Emotional Prototypicality Ratings for 636 Chinese Words: A Database of Chinese Words with Affective Information. J Psycholinguist Res 2023; 52:2775-2792. [PMID: 37740090 PMCID: PMC10703967 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-023-10018-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/06/2023] [Indexed: 09/24/2023]
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Exemplars of concepts vary in their degree of prototypicality. This is also true for emotion concepts. This study presents prototypicality ratings for a large set of Chinese words. The database contains 636 potential Chinese emotion words (i.e., words that directly express particular emotions, like " happy" and " sad"), from different grammatical categories. Native Chinese speakers rated the words in terms of emotional prototypicality. The database also contains values for valence, arousal, and emotionality. The analyses of the ratings revealed that 502 out of 636 words had a high prototypicality value (value equal to or above three on a 1-to-5 scale), the most prototypical words being negative and high-arousal words. The analyses also indicated that the emotional prototypicality of a word was positively related to both arousal and emotionality, and negatively related to valence. Among these variables, arousal was the most important contributor. Similar results have been found in studies conducted in other languages. This will be a useful resource for researchers interested in studying emotion words in the Chinese language and for those interested in cross-linguistic comparisons.
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- Ruiyao Zheng
- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Carretera de Valls, s.n., 43007, Tarragona, Spain
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- School of English Studies, Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Carretera de Valls, s.n., 43007, Tarragona, Spain
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- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Carretera de Valls, s.n., 43007, Tarragona, Spain.
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Rodriguez-Cuadrado S, Hinojosa JA, Guasch M, Romero-Rivas C, Sabater L, Suárez-Coalla P, Ferré P. Subjective age of acquisition norms for 1604 English words by Spanish L2 speakers of English and their relationship with lexico-semantic, affective, sociolinguistic and proficiency variables. Behav Res Methods 2023; 55:4437-4454. [PMID: 36477592 PMCID: PMC10700429 DOI: 10.3758/s13428-022-02026-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Psycholinguistic studies have shown that there are many variables implicated in language comprehension and production. At the lexical level, subjective age of acquisition (AoA), the estimate of the age at which a word is acquired, is key for stimuli selection in psycholinguistic studies. AoA databases in English are often used when testing a variety of phenomena in second language (L2) speakers of English. However, these have limitations, as the norms are not provided by the target population (L2 speakers of English) but by native English speakers. In this study, we asked native Spanish L2 speakers of English to provide subjective AoA ratings for 1604 English words, and investigated whether factors related to 14 lexico-semantic and affective variables, both in Spanish and English, and to the speakers' profile (i.e., sociolinguistic variables and L2 proficiency), were related to the L2 AoA ratings. We used boosted regression trees, an advanced form of regression analysis based on machine learning and boosting algorithms, to analyse the data. Our results showed that the model accounted for a relevant proportion of deviance (58.56%), with the English AoA provided by native English speakers being the strongest predictor for L2 AoA. Additionally, L2 AoA correlated with L2 reaction times. Our database is a useful tool for the research community running psycholinguistic studies in L2 speakers of English. It adds knowledge about which factors-linked to the characteristics of both the linguistic stimuli and the speakers-affect L2 subjective AoA. The database and the data can be downloaded from: https://osf.io/gr8xd/?view_only=73b01dccbedb4d7897c8d104d3d68c46 .
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- Sara Rodriguez-Cuadrado
- Departamento Interfacultativo de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación, Facultad de Formación del Profesorado y Educación, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C/ Francisco Tomás y Valiente, n° 3, 28049, Madrid, Spain.
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- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Departamento Psicología Experimental, Procesos Cognitivos y Logopedia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Nebrija en Cognición (CINC), Universidad Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Psicología y CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- Departamento Interfacultativo de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación, Facultad de Formación del Profesorado y Educación, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C/ Francisco Tomás y Valiente, n° 3, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento Interfacultativo de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación, Facultad de Formación del Profesorado y Educación, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C/ Francisco Tomás y Valiente, n° 3, 28049, Madrid, Spain
- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Psicología y Grupo de Investigación INCO, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Departamento de Psicología y CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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Hinojosa JA, Guasch M, Montoro PR, Albert J, Fraga I, Ferré P. The bright side of words: Norms for 9000 Spanish words in seven discrete positive emotions. Behav Res Methods 2023:10.3758/s13428-023-02229-8. [PMID: 37749425 DOI: 10.3758/s13428-023-02229-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 09/27/2023]
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In recent years, assumptions about the existence of a single construct of happiness that accounts for all positive emotions have been questioned. Instead, several discrete positive emotions with their own neurobiological and psychological mechanisms have been proposed. Of note, the effects of positive emotions on language processing are not yet properly understood. Here we provide a database for a large set of 9000 Spanish words scored by 3437 participants in the positive emotions of awe, contentment, amusement, excitement, serenity, relief, and pleasure. We also report significant correlations between discrete positive emotions and several affective (e.g., valence, arousal, happiness, negative discrete emotions) and lexico-semantic (e.g., frequency of use, familiarity, concreteness, age of acquisition) characteristics of words. Finally, we analyze differences between words conveying a single emotion ("pure" emotion words) and those denoting more than one emotion ("mixed" emotion words). This study will provide researchers a rich source of information to do research that contributes to expanding the current knowledge on the role of positive emotions in language. The norms are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.21533571.v2.
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- José A Hinojosa
- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- Dpto. Psicología Experimental, Procesos Cognitivos y Logopedia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- Centro de Investigación Nebrija en Cognición (CINC), Universidad Nebrija, Madrid, Spain.
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- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- Departamento de Psicología Básica 1, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Psicología Biológica y de la Salud, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Cognitive Processes & Behaviour Research Group, Department of Social Psychology, Basic Psychology & Methodology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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Guasch M, Boada R, Duñabeitia JA, Ferré P. Prevalence norms for 40,777 Catalan words: An online megastudy of vocabulary size. Behav Res Methods 2023; 55:3198-3217. [PMID: 36085541 PMCID: PMC10556174 DOI: 10.3758/s13428-022-01959-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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In this study, we present word prevalence data (i.e., the number of people who know a given word) for 40,777 Catalan words. An online massive visual lexical decision task involving more than 200,000 native speakers of this language was carried out. The characteristics of the participants as well as those of the words which mostly influence word knowledge were examined. Regarding the participants, the analysis of the data revealed that their age was the main factor influencing vocabulary size, followed by their educational level and other variables such as the number of languages spoken and their level of proficiency in Catalan. Concerning the words, by far the most determining factor was lexical frequency, with a minor influence of both length and the size of the orthographic neighborhood. These data mainly agree with those reported in other languages in which the same variables have been analyzed (Dutch, English, and Spanish, thus far). Therefore, the list is increased with Catalan, a language which, due to its use in an essentially bilingual context, is of special interest to researchers interested in the field of bilingualism and second language acquisition.
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Affiliation(s)
- Marc Guasch
- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.
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- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Nebrija en Cognición, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Languages and Culture, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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Haro J, López-Cortés N, Ferré P. Pupillometric and behavioural evidence shows no differences between polyseme and homonym processing. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2023; 238:103985. [PMID: 37453281 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2023.103985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2023] [Revised: 06/22/2023] [Accepted: 07/10/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023] Open
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Ambiguous words can have related meanings (polysemes, e.g., newspaper) or unrelated meanings (homonyms, e.g., bat). Here we examined the processing of both types of ambiguous words (as well as unambiguous words) in tasks of increasing level of semantic engagement. Four experiments were conducted in which the degree of semantic engagement of the task was manipulated: lexical decision task (Experiments 1 and 2), semantic categorization task (Experiment 3) and number-of-meanings task (Experiment 4). RTs and pupillary response were recorded. To our knowledge, pupillary response had never been used before to study ambiguous words processing in isolation. Results showed faster RTs for ambiguous words with respect to unambiguous words in LDT, and larger pupil dilation was observed for ambiguous words in comparison to unambiguous ones in number-of-meanings task. However, differences between polysemes and homonyms were not observed in any task. These results provide no evidence that polysemes and homonyms are processed differently.
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- Juan Haro
- Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Psychology, Research Center for Behaviour Assessment (CRAMC), Tarragona, Spain.
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- Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Psychology, Research Center for Behaviour Assessment (CRAMC), Tarragona, Spain
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Ferré P, Haro J, Pérez-Sánchez MÁ, Moreno I, Hinojosa JA. Emoji-SP, the Spanish emoji database: Visual complexity, familiarity, frequency of use, clarity, and emotional valence and arousal norms for 1031 emojis. Behav Res Methods 2023; 55:1715-1733. [PMID: 35713762 PMCID: PMC10250465 DOI: 10.3758/s13428-022-01893-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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This article presents subjective norms for 1031 emojis in six dimensions: visual complexity, familiarity, frequency of use, clarity, emotional valence, and emotional arousal. This is the largest normative study conducted so far that relies on subjective ratings. Unlike the few existing normative studies, which mainly comprise face emojis, here we present a wide range of emoji categories. We also examine the correlations between the dimensions assessed. Our results show that, in terms of their affective properties, emojis are analogous to other stimuli, such as words, showing the expected U-shaped relationship between valence and arousal. The relationship between affective properties and other dimensions (e.g., between valence and familiarity) is also similar to the relationship observed in words, in the sense that positively valenced emojis are more familiar than negative ones. These findings suggest that emojis are suitable stimuli for studying affective processing. Emoji-SP will be highly valuable for researchers of various fields interested in emojis, including computer science, communication, linguistics, and psychology. The full set of norms is available at: https://osf.io/dtfjv/ .
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- Pilar Ferré
- Departament de Psicologia and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Carretera de Valls, s.n, 43007, Tarragona, Spain.
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- Departament de Psicologia and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Carretera de Valls, s.n, 43007, Tarragona, Spain
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- Departamento de Psicología Experimental, Procesos Cognitivos y Logopedia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Psicología Experimental, Procesos Cognitivos y Logopedia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Nebrija en Cognición, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
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Zozaya N, Villaseca J, Abdalla F, Ancochea A, Málaga I, Trapero-Bertran M, Martín-Sobrino N, Delgado O, Ferré P, Hidalgo-Vega A. Strategic discussion on funding and access to therapies targeting rare diseases in Spain: an expert consensus paper. Orphanet J Rare Dis 2023; 18:41. [PMID: 36823598 PMCID: PMC9950008 DOI: 10.1186/s13023-023-02635-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/06/2023] [Indexed: 02/25/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND In recent years, significant advances have been made in the field of rare diseases (RDs). However, there is a large number of RDs without specific treatment and half of these treatments have public funding in Spain. The aim of the FINEERR project was to carry out a multidisciplinary strategic discussion on the challenge of funding and access to RD-targeted drugs in Spain, in order to agree on specific proposals for medium-term improvement and hence support decision-making in the Spanish National Healthcare System (SNHS). RESULTS The FINEERR Project was organized around a CORE Advisory Committee, which provided an overview, agreed on the design and scope of the project, and selected the members within each of four working groups (WG). Overall, 40 experts discussed and reached a consensus on different relevant aspects, such as conditioning factors for initial funding and access, evaluation and access to RD-targeted therapies, funding of these therapies, and implementation of a new funding and access model. From these meetings, 50 proposals were defined and classified by their level of relevance according to the experts. A descriptive analysis of responses was performed for each proposal. Thereafter, experts completed another questionnaire where they ranked the 25 most relevant proposals according to their level of feasibility of being implemented in the SNHS. The most relevant and feasible proposals were to improve: process of referral of patients with RDs, control over monitoring mechanisms, and communication between healthcare professionals and patients. CONCLUSIONS The FINEERR project may provide a starting point for stakeholders involved in the process of funding and access to RD-targeted therapies in Spain to provide the necessary resources and implement measures to improve both the quality of life and life expectancy of patients with RDs.
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- N. Zozaya
- grid.510782.9Health Economics Department, Weber, C/ Moreto 17, 5D, 28014 Madrid, Spain
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- grid.510782.9Health Economics Department, Weber, C/ Moreto 17, 5D, 28014 Madrid, Spain
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- grid.510782.9Health Economics Department, Weber, C/ Moreto 17, 5D, 28014 Madrid, Spain
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- grid.452965.9Federación Española de Enfermedades Raras (FEDER), Madrid, Spain
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- grid.411052.30000 0001 2176 9028Head of the Neuropediatrics Unit, Asturias Central University Hospital, Asturias, Spain
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- grid.410675.10000 0001 2325 3084Department of Basic Sciences, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain
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- Castilla y León Health Management Department, Technical Director of Pharmacy, Valladolid, Spain
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- grid.411164.70000 0004 1796 5984Pharmacy Service, Son Espases University Hospital, Palma, Balearic Spain
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- grid.436087.eTechnical Advisor On Temporal Leave, Ministry of Health, Madrid, Spain
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Comesaña M, Haro J, Macizo P, Ferré P. Corrigendum: Disentangling the role of deviant letter position on cognate word processing. Front Psychol 2022; 13:1091796. [DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1091796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Accepted: 11/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Haro J, Calvillo R, Poch C, Hinojosa JA, Ferré P. Your words went straight to my heart: the role of emotional prototypicality in the recognition of emotion-label words. Psychol Res 2022; 87:1075-1084. [PMID: 36056965 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-022-01723-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2022] [Accepted: 07/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Emotional words differ in how they acquire their emotional charge. There is a relevant distinction between emotion-label words (those that directly name an emotion, e.g., "joy" or "sadness") and emotion-laden words (those that do not name an emotion, but can provoke it, e.g., "party" or "death"). In this work, we focused on emotion-label words. These words vary in their emotional prototypicality, which indicates the extent to which the word refers to an emotion. We conducted two lexical decision experiments to examine the role played by emotional prototypicality in the recognition of emotion-label words. The results showed that emotional prototypicality has a facilitative effect in word recognition. Emotional prototypicality would ease conceptual access, thus facilitating the retrieval of emotional content during word recognition. In addition to the theoretical implications, the evidence gathered in this study also highlights the need to consider emotional prototypicality in the selection of emotion-label words in future studies.
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- Juan Haro
- Departament de Psicologia and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Carretera de Valls, s.n., 43007, Tarragona, Spain
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- Departamento de Psicología Experimental, Procesos Cognitivos y Logopedia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Educación, Universidad de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Psicología Experimental, Procesos Cognitivos y Logopedia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Nebrija en Cognición (CINC), Universidad Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
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- Departament de Psicologia and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Carretera de Valls, s.n., 43007, Tarragona, Spain.
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Hinojosa JA, Haro J, Calvillo-Torres R, González-Arias L, Poch C, Ferré P. I want it small or, rather, give me a bunch: the role of evaluative morphology on the assessment of the emotional properties of words. Cogn Emot 2022; 36:1203-1210. [PMID: 35770773 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2022.2093840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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ABSTRACTEvaluative markers of diminution and augmentation typically express quantity or intensity. Prior evidence suggests that they also convey emotions, although it remains unexplored as to whether this function is mediated by their role in expressing quantification/intensification. Here we investigated the effects of evaluative suffixes on the assessment of word affective properties by asking participants (N = 300) to score valence and arousal features for augmentatives, diminutives and base words with negative, positive or neutral valence. Diminutives and, to a lesser extent, augmentatives were assessed more positively than base forms in negative words and more negatively than bases in positive words. The capacity of diminution to express attenuated emotions is in line with its function in conveying quantity. By contrast, valence effects for augmentatives suggests a role in expressing pejoration and amelioration that is not mediated by quantification. With regard to arousal, negative, neutral and positive augmentatives showed higher scores than base words, which, in addition, were also rated higher than diminutives. These incremental effects suggest that suffixes which convey larger quantity are also associated with increased arousal. Thus, with the exception of valence effects in augmentatives, it seems that evaluative suffixes encode both valence and arousal through quantification.
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- José A Hinojosa
- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Dpto. Psicología Experimental, Procesos Cognitivos y Logopedia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Centro de Ciencia Cognitiva - C3, Universidad Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Dpto. Psicología Experimental, Procesos Cognitivos y Logopedia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Dpto. Psicología Experimental, Procesos Cognitivos y Logopedia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Facultad de Lenguas y Educación, Universidad de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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Santaniello G, Ferré P, Sanchez-Carmona A, Huete-Pérez D, Albert J, Hinojosa JA. Gamma Oscillations in the Temporal Pole Reflect the Contribution of Approach and Avoidance Motivational Systems to the Processing of Fear and Anger Words. Front Psychol 2022; 12:802290. [PMID: 35140664 PMCID: PMC8820231 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.802290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2021] [Accepted: 12/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Prior reports suggest that affective effects in visual word processing cannot be fully explained by a dimensional perspective of emotions based on valence and arousal. In the current study, we focused on the contribution of approach and avoidance motivational systems that are related to different action components to the processing of emotional words. To this aim, we compared frontal alpha asymmetries and brain oscillations elicited by anger words associated with approach (fighting) motivational tendencies, and fear words that may trigger either avoidance (escaping), approach (fighting) or no (freezing) action tendencies. The participants’ task was to make decisions about approaching or distancing from the concepts represented by words. The results of cluster-based and beamforming analyses revealed increased gamma power band synchronization for fear words relative to anger words between 725 and 750 ms, with an estimated neural origin in the temporal pole. These findings were interpreted to reflect a conflict between different action tendencies underlying the representation of fear words in semantic and emotional memories, when trying to achieve task requirements. These results are in line with the predictions made by the fear-hinders-action hypothesis. Additionally, current data highlights the contribution of motivational features to the representation and processing of emotional words.
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- Gerardo Santaniello
- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Psychology, Research Center for Behavior Assessment (CRAMC), Tarragona, Spain
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- Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Psychology, Research Center for Behavior Assessment (CRAMC), Tarragona, Spain
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- Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Nebrija en Cognición (CINC), Universidad Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
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Vieitez L, Haro J, Ferré P, Padrón I, Fraga I. Unraveling the Mystery About the Negative Valence Bias: Does Arousal Account for Processing Differences in Unpleasant Words? Front Psychol 2021; 12:748726. [PMID: 34795616 PMCID: PMC8593103 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.748726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2021] [Accepted: 10/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Many studies have found that the emotional content of words affects visual word recognition. However, most of them have only considered affective valence, finding inconsistencies regarding the direction of the effects, especially in unpleasant words. Recent studies suggest that arousal might explain why not all unpleasant words elicit the same behavior. The aim of the present research was to study the role of arousal in unpleasant word recognition. To do that, we carried out an ERP experiment in which participants performed a lexical decision task that included unpleasant words which could vary across three levels of arousal (intermediate, high, and very high) and words which were neutral in valence and had an intermediate level of arousal. Results showed that, within unpleasant words, those intermediate in arousal evoked smaller LPC amplitudes than words that were high or very high in arousal, indicating that arousal affects unpleasant word recognition. Critically, arousal determined whether the effect of negative valence was found or not. When arousal was not matched between unpleasant and neutral valenced words, the effect of emotionality was weak in the behavioral data and absent in the ERP data. However, when arousal was intermediate in both unpleasant and neutral valenced words, larger EPN amplitudes were reported for the former, pointing to an early allocation of attention. Interestingly, these unpleasant words which had an intermediate level of arousal showed a subsequent inhibitory effect in that they evoked smaller LPC amplitudes and led to slower reaction times and more errors than neutral words. Our results highlight the relevance that the arousal level has for the study of negative valence effects in word recognition.
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- Lucía Vieitez
- Cognitive Processes and Behavior Research Group, Department of Social Psychology, Basic Psychology, and Methodology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- Cognitive Processes and Behavior Research Group, Department of Social Psychology, Basic Psychology, and Methodology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Cognitive Processes and Behavior Research Group, Department of Social Psychology, Basic Psychology, and Methodology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Comesaña M, Haro J, Macizo P, Ferré P. Disentangling the Role of Deviant Letter Position on Cognate Word Processing. Front Psychol 2021; 12:731312. [PMID: 34630244 PMCID: PMC8497793 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.731312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2021] [Accepted: 08/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The way of coding letter position has been extensively assessed during the recognition of native words, leading to the development of a new generation of models that assume more flexible letter position coding schemes compared to classical computational models such as the interactive activation (IA) model. However, determining whether similar letter position encoding mechanisms occur during the bilingual word recognition has been largely less explored despite its implications for the leading model of bilingual word recognition (multilink) as it assumes the input-coding scheme of the IA model. In this study, we aimed to examine this issue through the manipulation of the position of the deviant letter of cognate words (external and internal letters). Two experiments were conducted with Catalan-Spanish bilinguals (a masked priming lexical decision task and a two-alternative forced-choice task) and their respective monolingual controls. The results revealed a differential processing for the first letter in comparison to the other letters as well as modulations as a function of language cue, suggesting amendments to the input-coding scheme of the multilink model.
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- Montserrat Comesaña
- Research Unit in Human Cognition, CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal,Center for Cognitive Science (C3), Nebrija University, Madrid, Spain,*Correspondence: Montserrat Comesaña
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- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- Department of Experimental Psychology and Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC), University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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Gavilán JM, Haro J, Hinojosa JA, Fraga I, Ferré P. Psycholinguistic and affective norms for 1,252 Spanish idiomatic expressions. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0254484. [PMID: 34270572 PMCID: PMC8284670 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0254484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2021] [Accepted: 06/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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This study provides psycholinguistic and affective norms for 1,252 Spanish idiomatic expressions. A total of 965 Spanish native speakers rated the idioms in 7 subjective variables: familiarity, knowledge of the expression, decomposability, literality, predictability, valence and arousal. Correlational analyses showed that familiarity has a strong positive correlation with knowledge, suggesting that the knowledge of the figurative meaning of an idiom is highly related to its frequency of use. Familiarity has a moderate positive correlation with final word predictability, indicating that the more familiar an idiom is rated, the more predictable it tends to be. Decomposability shows a moderate positive correlation with literality, suggesting that those idioms whose figurative meaning is easier to deduce from their constituents tend to have a plausible literal meaning. In affective terms, Spanish idioms tend to convey more negative (66%) than positive meanings (33%). Furthermore, valence and arousal show a quadratic relationship, in line with the typical U-shaped relationship found for single words, which means that the more emotionally valenced an idiom is rated, the more arousing it is considered to be. This database will provide researchers with a large pool of stimuli for studying the representation and processing of idioms in healthy and clinical populations.
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- José M. Gavilán
- Department of Psychology, Research Center for Behavior Assessment (CRAMC), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, Research Center for Behavior Assessment (CRAMC), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Departamento de Psicología Experimental, Procesos Cognitivos y Logopedia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Ciencia Cognitiva—C3, Universidad Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Social Psychology, Basic Psychology and Methodology, Cognitive Processes & Behavior Research Group, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, Research Center for Behavior Assessment (CRAMC), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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Ferré P, Haro J, Huete-Pérez D, Fraga I. Emotionality effects in ambiguous word recognition: The crucial role of the affective congruence between distinct meanings of ambiguous words. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 2021; 74:1234-1243. [PMID: 33438523 DOI: 10.1177/1747021821990003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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There is substantial evidence that affectively charged words (e.g., party or gun) are processed differently from neutral words (e.g., pen), although there are also inconsistent findings in the field. Some lexical or semantic variables might explain such inconsistencies, due to the possible modulation of affective word processing by these variables. The aim of the present study was to examine the extent to which affective word processing is modulated by semantic ambiguity. We conducted a large lexical decision study including semantically ambiguous words (e.g., cataract) and semantically unambiguous words (e.g., terrorism), analysing the extent to which reaction times (RTs) were influenced by their affective properties. The findings revealed a valence effect in which positive valence made RTs faster, whereas negative valence slowed them. The valence effect diminished as the semantic ambiguity of words increased. This decrease did not affect all ambiguous words, but was observed mainly in ambiguous words with incongruent affective meanings. These results highlight the need to consider the affective properties of the distinct meanings of ambiguous words in research on affective word processing.
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- Pilar Ferré
- Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Psychology, Research Center for Behavior Assessment (CRAMC), Tarragona, Spain
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- Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Psychology, Research Center for Behavior Assessment (CRAMC), Tarragona, Spain
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- Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Psychology, Research Center for Behavior Assessment (CRAMC), Tarragona, Spain
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- Cognitive Processes & Behavior Research Group, Department of Social Psychology, Basic Psychology, and Methodology, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Boudou P, Djibré M, Ibrahim F, Fellahi S, Gilon P, Andreelli F, Ferré P, Boissan M. Massive lactic acidosis and ketoacidosis with glucagon deficiency in a chronic alcoholic patient. Diabetes Metab 2020; 47:101170. [PMID: 32531474 DOI: 10.1016/j.diabet.2020.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2020] [Revised: 05/21/2020] [Accepted: 05/25/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- P Boudou
- Biochemistry and Hormonology Unit, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Groupe Hospitalier Saint-Louis/Lariboisière Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France.
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- Service de Médecine Intensive Réanimation, Hôpital Tenon, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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- Biochemistry and Hormonology Unit, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Groupe Hospitalier Saint-Louis/Lariboisière Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France
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- INSERM UMR_S 938, Saint-Antoine Research Centre, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; Service de Biochimie et Hormonologie, Hôpital Tenon, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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- Pole of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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- Diabetes Department, Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Sorbonne Université, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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- Centre de recherche des Cordeliers, INSERM, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, 12, rue école de médecine, 75006 Paris, France; Department of Oncology and Endocrine Biochemistry, Pitié-Salpêtrière-Charles Foix University Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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- INSERM UMR_S 938, Saint-Antoine Research Centre, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; Service de Biochimie et Hormonologie, Hôpital Tenon, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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Huete-Pérez D, Haro J, Hinojosa JA, Ferré P. Does it matter if we approach or withdraw when reading? A comparison of fear-related words and anger-related words. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2019; 197:73-85. [PMID: 31125899 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.04.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2019] [Revised: 04/29/2019] [Accepted: 04/30/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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The main aim of the present research was to explore the role of affective features beyond valence and arousal (i.e., the approach-withdrawal dimension) in visual word processing. For this purpose, fear-related words and anger-related words were compared in three tasks: a lexical decision task (LDT), a valence decision task (VDT) and an approach-distancing decision task (ADDT). Although these two types of words did not differ in the first two tasks, faster 'distancing' responses were given to anger-related words than to fear-related words in the ADDT. As long as these two types of words were matched in valence and arousal (among other variables), these results illustrate the need to consider other emotional dimensions (in this case, the approach-withdrawal dimension) beyond the two-dimensional perspective in order to account for the emotional effects in visual words processing and to describe how the affective space is organized. In addition, the results suggest a task-dependence effect: differential effects of fear and anger only emerged when participants were explicitly focused on the approach-withdrawal dimension. These findings are discussed in relation to motivationally-based mechanisms.
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Soares AP, Oliveira H, Ferreira M, Comesaña M, Macedo AF, Ferré P, Acuña-Fariña C, Hernández-Cabrera J, Fraga I. Lexico-syntactic interactions during the processing of temporally ambiguous L2 relative clauses: An eye-tracking study with intermediate and advanced Portuguese-English bilinguals. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0216779. [PMID: 31141531 PMCID: PMC6541246 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2018] [Accepted: 04/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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There is extensive evidence showing that bilinguals activate the lexical and the syntactic representations of both languages in a nonselective way. However, the extent to which the lexical and the syntactic levels of representations interact during second language (L2) sentence processing and how those interactions are modulated by L2 proficiency remain unclear. This paper aimed to directly address these issues by using an online technique (eye-tracking) that is highly sensitive to the lexical and syntactic processes involved in sentence reading. To that purpose, native-speakers of European Portuguese (EP) learning English as L2 at intermediate and advanced levels of proficiency were asked to silently read temporally ambiguous L2 relative clause (RC) sentences disambiguated with a High-Attachment (HA) or Low-Attachment (LA) strategy while their eye-movements were monitored. Since EP and English native speakers differ in the way they process and comprehend this syntactic structure (EP: HA, English: LA), HA preferences were used as a marker of L1 RC syntax interference. Additionally, the cognate status of the complex NP that preceded the RC was manipulated to further analyze how the lexical co-activation of both languages would also affect the syntactic representations of the non-target (L1) language. Results showed cognate facilitation in early and late reading time measures regardless of L2 proficiency, and also that the cognate status of the complex NP impacted L2 reading performance, particularly at lower levels of L2 proficiency. These findings provide compelling evidence for a bilingual reading system that seems to be highly dynamic and interactive not only within each level of processing, but, importantly, across levels of representation. They also suggested that, as the level of L2 proficiency increases, L1 RC syntax interference becomes stronger, in a syntactic parser that seems to operate in a more integrated and nonselective way, with both strategies being equally available to guide L2 reading comprehension. Results are discussed attending to the current models of bilingual syntactic processing.
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- Ana Paula Soares
- Human Cognition Lab, CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- Human Cognition Lab, CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- Department of Medicine and Optometry, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Human Cognition Lab, CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- Department of Medicine and Optometry, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden.,Vision Rehabilitation Lab, Centre of Physics and Optometry, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- Psycholinguistics Research Group, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- Cognitive Processes & Behaviour Research Group, University of Santiago Compostela, Santiago Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Behavioral Sciences, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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- Cognitive Processes & Behaviour Research Group, University of Santiago Compostela, Santiago Compostela, Spain
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Parmentier FBR, Fraga I, Leiva A, Ferré P. Distraction by deviant sounds: disgusting and neutral words capture attention to the same extent. Psychol Res 2019; 84:1801-1814. [PMID: 31053888 PMCID: PMC7478951 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-019-01192-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2018] [Accepted: 04/20/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
Abstract
Several studies have argued that words evoking negative emotions, such as disgust, grab attention more than neutral words, and leave traces in memory that are more persistent. However, these conclusions are typically based on tasks requiring participants to process the semantic content of these words in a voluntarily manner. We sought to compare the involuntary attention grabbing power of disgusting and neutral words using them as rare and unexpected auditory distractors in a cross-modal oddball task, and then probing the participants’ memory for these stimuli in a surprise recognition task. Frequentist and Bayesian analyses converged to show that, compared to a standard tone, disgusting and neutral auditory words produced significant but equivalent levels of distraction in a visual categorization task, that they elicited comparable levels of memory discriminability in the incidental recognition task, and that the participants’ individual sensitivity to disgust did not influence the results. Our results suggest that distraction by unexpected words is not modulated by their emotional valence, at least when these words are task-irrelevant and are temporally and perceptually decoupled from the target stimuli.
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- Fabrice B R Parmentier
- Department of Psychology and Research Institute for Health Sciences (iUNICS), Ed. Cientifico-Tecnico (iUNICS), University of the Balearic Islands, Ctra de Valldemossa, km 75, 07122, Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain. .,Balearic Islands Health Research Institute (IdISBa), Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain. .,School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.
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- Cognitive Processes and Behavior Research Group, Department of Social Psychology, Basic Psychology and Methodology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Psychology and Research Institute for Health Sciences (iUNICS), Ed. Cientifico-Tecnico (iUNICS), University of the Balearic Islands, Ctra de Valldemossa, km 75, 07122, Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain.,Balearic Islands Health Research Institute (IdISBa), Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain
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- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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The present study explores the issue of why ambiguous words are recognized faster than unambiguous ones during word recognition. To this end we contrasted two different hypotheses: the semantic feedback hypothesis (Hino and Lupker in J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 22:1331-1356, 1996. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.22.6.1331 ), and the hypothesis proposed by Borowsky and Masson (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cognit 22:63-85, 1996. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.22.1.63 ). Although both hypotheses agree that ambiguous words benefit during recognition in that they engage more semantic activation, they disagree as to whether or not this greater semantic activation feeds back to the orthographic level, hence speeding up the orthographic coding of ambiguous words. Participants were presented with ambiguous and unambiguous words in two tasks, a lexical decision task (LDT) and a two-alternative forced-choice task (2AFC). We found differences between ambiguous and unambiguous words in both the LDT and the 2AFC tasks. These results suggest that the orthographic coding of ambiguous words is boosted during word processing. This finding lends support to the semantic feedback hypothesis.
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- Juan Haro
- Department of Psychology, Research Center for Behavior Assessment (CRAMC), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Crta. de Valls s/n, Campus Sescelades, 43007, Tarragona, Spain.
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- Human Cognition Lab, CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- Department of Psychology, Research Center for Behavior Assessment (CRAMC), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Crta. de Valls s/n, Campus Sescelades, 43007, Tarragona, Spain
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This study presents subjective ratings for 3,022 Croatian words, which were evaluated on two affective dimensions (valence and arousal) and one lexico-semantic variable (concreteness). A sample of 933 Croatian native speakers rated the words online. Ratings showed high reliabilities for all three variables, as well as significant correlations with ratings from databases available in Spanish and English. A quadratic relation between valence and arousal was observed, with a tendency for arousal to increase for negative and positive words, and neutral words having the lowest arousal ratings. In addition, significant correlations were found between affective dimensions and word concreteness, suggesting that abstract words have a tendency to be more arousing and emotional than concrete words. The present database will allow experimental research in Croatian, a language with a considerable lack of psycholinguistic norms, by providing researchers with a useful tool in the investigation of the relationship between language and emotion for the South-Slavic group of languages.
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- Bojana Ćoso
- 1 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
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- 2 Department of Psychology, Research Center for Behavior Assessment, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- 2 Department of Psychology, Research Center for Behavior Assessment, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- 3 Facultad de Psicología, Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Ferré P, Comesaña M, Guasch M. Emotional Content and Source Memory for Language: Impairment in an Incidental Encoding Task. Front Psychol 2019; 10:65. [PMID: 30761039 PMCID: PMC6363679 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2018] [Accepted: 01/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Research into the effects of emotion on source memory (i.e., memory for certain contextual details of a stimulus, such as its location, color, or temporal context) has yielded inconsistent findings. Mather and her co-workers tried to account for such inconsistencies by pointing out the relevance of the characteristics of the feature examined. Specifically, they distinguished between intrinsic and extrinsic features (Mather, 2007) and between goal-relevant and goal-irrelevant information (Mather and Sutherland, 2011). In the current study, we investigated source memory for language, which is an intrinsic feature or words. Catalan-Spanish bilinguals were tested in three experiments involving a recognition task in which they were asked about the language of presentation (Catalan or Spanish) of emotional and neutral words. In Experiments 1 and 2, source memory for negative and neutral words was assessed. In Experiment 1 participants performed an intentional encoding task in which language was a goal-relevant feature. In Experiment 2, they did an incidental encoding task in which language was also goal-relevant. Experiment 3 replicated Experiment 2 but negative words were replaced by positive words. The results showed an impairment in source memory for the language of presentation of emotional words when the encoding task was incidental, but not when it was intentional. Such impairment was observed with both negative words and positive words. The results are discussed in relation to the proposals of Mather and co-workers and point to the relevance of modulating factors, such as the intentional/incidental nature of encoding.
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- Pilar Ferré
- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- Human Cognition Lab, Research Center on Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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Bui TMT, Nguyễn KX, Karata A, Ferré P, Trần MT, Wakai T, Funahashi H. Presence of vascular endothelial growth factor during the first half of IVM improves the meiotic and developmental competence of porcine oocytes from small follicles. Reprod Fertil Dev 2018; 29:1902-1909. [PMID: 27938625 DOI: 10.1071/rd16321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2016] [Accepted: 10/20/2016] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) on the meiotic and developmental competence of porcine oocytes from small follicles (SF; 0.5-3mm diameter). When cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) from medium-sized follicles (MF; 3-6mm diameter) and SF were cultured for IVM, the maturation rates were significantly higher for oocytes from MF than SF. Concentrations of VEGF in the medium were significantly higher for COCs cultured from MF than SF. When COCs from SF were exposed to 200ngmL-1 VEGF during the first 20h of IVM, the maturation rate improved significantly and was similar to that of oocytes derived from MF. The fertilisability of oocytes was also significantly higher than that of VEGF-free SF controls. Following parthenogenetic activation, the blastocyst formation rate improved significantly when SF COC culture was supplemented with 200ngmL-1 VEGF, with the rate similar to that of oocytes from MF. The results of the present study indicate that VEGF markedly improves the meiotic and developmental competence of oocytes derived from SF, especially at a concentration of 200ngmL-1 during the first 20h of IVM.
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- Tra M T Bui
- Department of Animal Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Okayama University, Tsushima-Naka, Kita-Ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Department of Animal Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Okayama University, Tsushima-Naka, Kita-Ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Department of Animal Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Okayama University, Tsushima-Naka, Kita-Ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Department of Animal Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Okayama University, Tsushima-Naka, Kita-Ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Department of Animal Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Okayama University, Tsushima-Naka, Kita-Ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Department of Animal Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Okayama University, Tsushima-Naka, Kita-Ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Department of Animal Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Okayama University, Tsushima-Naka, Kita-Ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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Santaniello G, Ferré P, Rodríguez-Gómez P, Poch C, Eva MM, Hinojosa JA. Recognition memory advantage for negative emotional words has an early expiry date: Evidence from brain oscillations and ERPs. Neuropsychologia 2018; 117:233-240. [PMID: 29908952 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2017] [Revised: 04/30/2018] [Accepted: 06/08/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Evidence from prior studies has shown an advantage in recognition memory for emotional compared to neutral words. Whether this advantage is short-lived or rather extends over longer periods, as well as whether the effect depends on words' valence (i.e., positive or negative), remains unknown. In the present ERP/EEG study, we investigated this issue by manipulating the lag distance (LAG-2, LAG-8 and LAG-16) between the presentation of old and new words in an online recognition memory task. LAG differences were observed at behavior, ERPs and in the theta frequency band. In line with previous studies, negative words were associated with faster reaction times, higher hit rates and increased amplitude in a positive ERP component between 386 and 564 ms compared to positive and neutral words. Remarkably, the interaction of LAG by EMOTION revealed that negative words were associated with better performance and larger ERPs amplitudes only at LAG-2. Also in the LAG-2 condition, emotional words (i.e., positive and negative words) induced a stronger desynchronization in the beta band between 386 and 542 ms compared to neutral words. These early enhanced memory effects for emotional words are discussed in terms of the Negative Emotional Valence Enhances Recapitulation (NEVER) model and the mobilization-minimization hypothesis.
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- G Santaniello
- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
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- Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Psychology, and Research Center for Behavior Assessment (CRAMC), 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain; Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Pozuelo de Alarcón, 28223 Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain; Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Pozuelo de Alarcón, 28223 Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain; Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Pozuelo de Alarcón, 28223 Madrid, Spain.
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It is not clear whether multiple unrelated meanings inhibit or facilitate word recognition. Some studies have found a disadvantage for words having multiple meanings with respect to unambiguous words in lexical decision tasks (LDT), whereas several others have shown a facilitation for such words. In the present study, we argue that these inconsistent findings may be due to the approach employed to select ambiguous words across studies. To address this issue, we conducted three LDT experiments in which we varied the measure used to classify ambiguous and unambiguous words. The results suggest that multiple unrelated meanings facilitate word recognition. In addition, we observed that the approach employed to select ambiguous words may affect the pattern of experimental results. This evidence has relevant implications for theoretical accounts of ambiguous words processing and representation.
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- Juan Haro
- Research Center for Behavior Assessment (CRAMC) and Department of Psychology, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Crta. de Valls s/n, Campus Sescelades, 43007, Tarragona, Spain.
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- Research Center for Behavior Assessment (CRAMC) and Department of Psychology, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Crta. de Valls s/n, Campus Sescelades, 43007, Tarragona, Spain
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Ferré P, Otsuki J, Takayama O, Motohashi H, Wakai T, Nakatsuka M, Funahashi H. 103 The Tunica Albuginea Increases in Thickness and Density Correlatively with the Age of the Patient in Human Ovaries. Reprod Fertil Dev 2018. [DOI: 10.1071/rdv30n1ab103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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A decline in fertility occurs with age. Because the extracellular matrix has a vital role in maintaining the integrity and determining the tissue function of numerous organs, the reasons for this fertility reduction may be associated with changes occurring in the ovarian matrix. To demonstrate this hypothesis, by using Picrosirius Red (PSR), a connective tissue dye specific for fibres of collagen I and III, we examined the ovarian tunica albuginea (TA), a part of the cortex composed by dense connective tissue that protects the ovaries and whose rupture is critical for the occurrence of ovulation events. According to an approval from the Ethics Committee of Okayama University (approval number 1818), ovaries were obtained from patients with gender identity disorder at the Okayama University Hospital. Sliced ovaries were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde and included in paraffin. Sections of 5 μm thickness were stained with PSR. For each individual, 2 non-overlapping brightfield images were taken of each section with a fluorescence microscope and the attached viewer software (Keyence BZ-X710, Keyence Corp., Osaka, Japan). ImageJ (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA) was used to quantify the distance of the dense connective tissue by selecting 5 random points manually per image and, to quantify the density of the tissue; we detected PSR staining above a determined threshold kept constant for all the images analysed. Statistical analyses of data from 3 replicates per individual were performed by Pearson’s correlation, and a P-value < 0.05 was considered significant. We examined samples from 18 individuals from 21 to 46 years old (mean age ± SD: 30.1 ± 7.5 years). When we observed the PSR histological sections, we could not detect any correlation between dosage and length of the androgenic treatment received by the patients and the thickness and density of the TA (P = 0.76 and P = 0.14, respectively). However, when we contrasted the age of the donor with the previous parameters, we detected a significant positive correlation (r = 0.52, P < 0.05) between the thickness of the TA and the age of the subject, indicating that this layer becomes thicker with increasing age. Furthermore, when we assessed its density, the results indicated a significant positive correlation (r = 0.55, P < 0.05) between age and TA density, meaning that this layer also becomes more compact in older individuals. The thickness of the TA seems to increase due to fibrotic growth underneath this layer, which causes an increase of the total thickness of the dense connective tissue. These areas of fibrosis have no follicles and usually present a clear limit with the rest of the cortical tissue area. In conclusion, we demonstrated that the ovarian cortical area comprising dense connective tissue grew thicker with increasing age without any contribution of the dosage or length of the androgenic treatment. The implications of these findings regarding ovulation, follicular growth, and the potential effects of related hormones such as LH and FSH on the ovaries must be investigated further.
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Ferré P, Haro J, Hinojosa JA. Be aware of the rifle but do not forget the stench: differential effects of fear and disgust on lexical processing and memory. Cogn Emot 2017; 32:796-811. [DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2017.1356700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- Pilar Ferré
- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- Pluridisciplinary Institute and Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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García-Orza J, Gavilán JM, Fraga I, Ferré P. Testing the online reading effects of emotionality on relative clause attachment. Cogn Process 2017; 18:543-553. [PMID: 28447242 DOI: 10.1007/s10339-017-0811-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2016] [Accepted: 04/19/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Previous research has shown the impact of the emotional dimension of nouns (i.e., valence and arousal) on the completion of relative clauses (RC) that are preceded by a double antecedent [e.g.,: Someone shot the servant (the first noun phrase, NP1) of the actress (the second noun phrase, NP2) who was on the balcony] (Fraga et al. in Q J Exp Psychol 65:1740-1759, 2012). The present study explored for the first time the role of emotional valence, specifically emotional positive nouns, on RC disambiguation in a self-paced reading experiment. Two types of NP1-NP2 relationships were compared: emotional-neutral vs. neutral-emotional. Results showed NP1 preferences in the emotional-neutral condition, whereas no preferences were found in the neutral-emotional condition. We conclude that during reading, the emotional properties of nouns play a role in disambiguation preferences: RC attachment preferences can be neutralized when emotional factors are manipulated. The results are discussed within the framework of current models of sentence processing and with reference to the controversial differences between comprehension and production.
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- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- Cognitive Processes & Behavior Research Group, Department of Social Psychology, Basic Psychology and Methodology, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain
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- Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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Ferré P, Nguyen KX, Wakai T, Funahashi H. 167 DEVELOPMENTAL COMPETENCE OF PORCINE OOCYTES DERIVED FROM SMALL- OR MEDIUM-SIZED FOLLICLES AND DENUDED OF CUMULUS CELLS BEFORE AND DURING IN VITRO MATURATION. Reprod Fertil Dev 2017. [DOI: 10.1071/rdv29n1ab167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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This experiment was undertaken to assess the meiotic and developmental competences of oocytes derived from different sized follicles and denuded of cumulus cells 0, 20, and 44 h after the start of culture for in vitro maturation (IVM). Groups of 60 oocyte-cumulus complexes from small- (SF; <3 mm) and medium-sized follicles (MF; 3–6 mm) were cultured for IVM in porcine oocyte medium with 50 μM β-mercaptoethanol supplemented with 1 mM dibutyryl-cyclic adenosine monophosphate, 10 IU mL−1 of eCG, and 10 IU mL−1 of hCG for 20 h at 39°C and 5% CO2 in air. Then, after washing, they continued culture in fresh β-mercaptoethanol without dibutyryl-cyclic adenosine monophosphate and gonadotropins under the same conditions for another 24 h. At 0, 20, and 44 h of IVM, cumulus cells were removed with 0.1% (wt/vol) hyaluronidase and the denuded oocytes continued IVM culture following the protocol. Mature oocytes with the first polar body were selected, parthenogenetically activated with a single electrical pulse (DC: 1.2 kV/cm, 30 µs), incubated with 4% (wt/vol) BSA and 5 μM cytochalasin B for 4 h, and cultured in porcine zygote medium for 5 days. Cleavage and blastocyst formation rates were observed on Day 2 and 5, respectively. Blastocysts were stained with 4’,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole for cell count assessment. The experiment was replicated 5 times and analysed with a 1- or 2-way ANOVA. If P < 0.05 in ANOVA, a Tukey multiple comparisons test was performed. Regardless of the time of cumulus cell removal, oocytes from MF had significantly higher in rates of maturation, cleavage, and blastocyst rates, as compared with those from SF, whereas there were no significant differences in the cell number of blastocysts between SF and MF (32 v. 34 cells, respectively). When oocytes were denuded before IVM culture, rates of oocyte maturation (37.6% in SF and 50.8% in MF), and blastocyst formation (2.7% in SF and 27.3% in MF) were significantly lower than controls (51.2% in SF and 76% in MF; 25.8% in SF and 48.5% in MF, respectively). When oocytes were denuded 20 h after the start of IVM, oocyte maturation rates were significantly increased (64.1% in SF and 82.5% in MF) as compared with controls, whereas no significant differences were observed in cleavage and blastocyst formation rates in comparison with controls. These results conclude that removing cumulus cells from oocyte-cumulus complexes 20 h after the start of IVM improves the meiotic competence of oocytes derived from both SF and MF, without any reduction of developmental competence of the oocytes following parthenogenetical activation.
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Ferré P, Bui TMT, Wakai T, Funahashi H. Effect of removing cumulus cells from porcine cumulus-oocyte complexes derived from small and medium follicles during IVM on the apoptotic status and meiotic progression of the oocytes. Theriogenology 2016; 86:1705-10. [PMID: 27329157 DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2016.05.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2016] [Revised: 05/11/2016] [Accepted: 05/20/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The present study was undertaken to examine the apoptotic status and meiotic progression of oocytes from small follicle (SF; 0.5-2 mm in diameter) and medium follicle (MF; 3-6 mm in diameter) when the oocytes were denuded before, during, and after IVM. Cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) were collected from SF or MF of prepubertal gilt ovaries. Before or 20 hours after the start of IVM culture, some oocytes were denuded and cultured for IVM. At the end of IVM, apoptotic status and meiotic progression of the oocytes were compared with oocytes matured in the presence of cumulus cells (CCs) by Annexin-V/PI assay and 4',6-Diamidino-2-phenylindole staining. Apoptotic status of the oocytes was only affected by time when the oocytes were denuded. In both oocytes from SF and MF, although the incidence of early and late apoptotic oocytes was significantly higher when the CCs were removed before IVM, the rate was significantly lower when CCs were removed 20 and 44 hours after the start of IVM. The incidence of mature oocytes was significantly affected by both the origin of COCs and time when oocytes were denuded from the COCs. Although the percentage of mature oocytes was higher in MF than SF, maturation rates were significantly higher when oocytes were denuded 20 hours, as compared with 0 and 44 hours after the start of IVM. However, the percentage of mature oocytes with a morphologically normal spindle was significantly higher when oocytes were denuded 44 hours, rather than 22 hours of IVM. In conclusion, removing CCs 20 hours after the start of IVM seems to promote meiotic progression of the oocytes to the metaphase-II stage even when the COCs were collected from SF, although factor(s) from or communication with CCs during IVM may need to obtain a morphologically normal spindle in mature oocytes.
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- Pilar Ferré
- Department of Animal Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Animal Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Animal Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Animal Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.
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Ferré P, Bui TTM, Tran MT, Wakai T, Funahashi H. 206 EFFECT OF ADDITION OF FOLLICULAR FLUID OR GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR-9 ON IN VITRO MATURATION OF PORCINE OOCYTES DENUDED 20h AFTER THE START OF IN VITRO MATURATION. Reprod Fertil Dev 2016. [DOI: 10.1071/rdv28n2ab206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The interruption of communication between oocyte and cumulus cells (CC) can trigger meiotic resumption and exogenous additives, such as follicular fluid (FF) and growth differentiation factor-9 (GDF9), can improve oocyte quality and the developmental competence. This study was undertaken to examine if the absence and presence of FF from medium follicles (MF; 3–6 mm in diameter) or recombinant human GDF9 (Biovision, Milpitas, CA, USA) during the first or/and second half of in vitro maturation (IVM) had any effects on IVM of oocytes from small follicles (SF; 0.5–2 mm in diameter) or MF when the oocytes were denuded at 20 h after the start of IVM. Cumulus-oocyte complexes (COC) were aspirated from SF or MF of slaughtered prepubertal gilt ovaries. Groups of ~30 COC were cultured in a 300-μL drop of porcine oocyte medium containing 50 µM β-mercaptoethanol (mPOM) with or without 10% (v/v) FF and/or 100 ng mL–1 GDF9 at 39°C and 5% CO2 in air. During the first 20 h after the start of IVM, the medium was supplemented with 1 mM dibutyryl c-AMP, 10 IU mL–1 eCG and 10 IU mL–1 hCG. After the first period of IVM, the CC surrounding the oocytes were removed and the denuded oocytes continued culture for IVM with or without FF or/and GDF9 in the absence of dibutyryl c-AMP and gonadotropins in the same medium for another 24 h. At the end of IVM, meiotic progression of the oocytes was examined by DAPI staining. Statistical analyses from at least 4 replicates data were performed by a 2-way ANOVA and a Tukey’s multiple comparisons test. Removal of CC 20 h after the start of IVM significantly improved the incidence of mature oocytes derived from SF (59.2–64.1% v. 41.6–43.1% in controls, P < 0.05) but not from MF (73.1–78.5% v. 70.6–71.8% in controls), whereas regardless of supplementation with FF or GDF9, the maturation rates were always significantly higher in the denuded oocytes from MF (72.4–83.6%) than SF (57.8–66.2%; P < 0.05). Despite of the origin of COC (SF or MF), maturation rates of oocytes denuded 20 h after the start of IVM were not affected by supplementation with FF or GDF9 during the first and/or second half of IVM (P > 0.05). In summary, CC removal from COC 20 h after the start of IVM promotes nuclear maturation of oocytes from SF. Exogenous additives such as GDF9 and follicular fluid from MF do not seem to affect the promotion of nuclear maturation in our experimental conditions.
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Ferré P, Ventura D, Comesaña M, Fraga I. The role of emotionality in the acquisition of new concrete and abstract words. Front Psychol 2015; 6:976. [PMID: 26217289 PMCID: PMC4497307 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2014] [Accepted: 06/29/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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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).
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- Pilar Ferré
- Research Center for Behavior Assessment and Department of Psychology, Rovira i Virgili University, TarragonaSpain
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- Research Center for Behavior Assessment and Department of Psychology, Rovira i Virgili University, TarragonaSpain
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- Human Cognition Lab, CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, BragaPortugal
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- Cognitive Processes & Behavior Research Group, Department of Social Psychology, Basic Psychology and Methodology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de CompostelaSpain
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Ferré P, Guasch M, García-Chico T, Sánchez-Casas R. Are there qualitative differences in the representation of abstract and concrete words? Within-language and cross-language evidence from the semantic priming paradigm. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 2015; 68:2402-18. [PMID: 25671701 DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2015.1016980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The different organizational frameworks theory proposes that there is a qualitative difference between the representation of concrete and abstract words in memory: Concrete concepts would be primarily organized in terms of semantic similarity whereas abstract concepts would be mainly organized by their association with other concepts. Evidence in support of this proposal has been mostly obtained with neuropsychological populations and, to a lesser extent, with healthy participants. In the present work, we tested the different organizational frameworks theory by using, for the first time, a semantic priming paradigm both within language and across languages. The results revealed that there was priming for both semantically similar and associative relations when words were concrete. However, with abstract words, priming was only observed when pairs and targets were associated. These results do not support the proposal of Crutch and coworkers, suggesting that the experimental paradigm as well as the type of relations tested may modulate the pattern of effects obtained with concrete and abstract words.
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- Pilar Ferré
- a Research Center for Behavior Assessment and Department of Psychology , Universitat Rovira i Virgili , Tarragona , Spain
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- a Research Center for Behavior Assessment and Department of Psychology , Universitat Rovira i Virgili , Tarragona , Spain
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- b Department of Psychology , Universidad Pontificia de Comillas , Madrid , Spain
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- a Research Center for Behavior Assessment and Department of Psychology , Universitat Rovira i Virgili , Tarragona , Spain
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Ferré P, Funahashi H. 297 EFFECT OF CUMULUS CELL REMOVAL DURING IN VITRO MATURATION OF PORCINE CUMULUS–OOCYTE COMPLEXES ON THE APOPTOTIC STATUS AND MEIOTIC PROGRESSION OF THE OOCYTES. Reprod Fertil Dev 2015. [DOI: 10.1071/rdv27n1ab297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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This study was undertaken to examine the apoptotic status and meiotic progression of oocytes from small (SF) and medium follicles (MF) when the oocytes were denuded from cumulus cells (CC) before, during and after culture for in vitro maturation (IVM). Cumulus-oocyte complexes (COC) were aspirated from SF (0.5–2 mm in diameter) or MF (3–6 mm in diameter) of slaughtered prepubertal gilt ovaries. Only COC with a good morphology of the surrounding cumulus cells were cultured for IVM in modified porcine oocyte medium supplemented with 50 µM β-mercaptoethanol, 1 mM dibutyryl c-AMP, 10 IU mL–1 of eCG, and 10 IU mL–1 of hCG for 20 h at 39°C and 5% CO2 in air and then continued culture in the absence of dibutyryl c-AMP, eCG, and hCG in the same medium for another 24 h. Before and 20 h after the start of IVM culture, some of the oocytes were denuded of CC and the oocytes continued the IVM culture. After IVM culture, oocyte viability and meiotic progression were examined by the annexin V/PI viability assay and DAPI staining. Statistical analyses of 5 replicate data were performed with a 2-way ANOVA and a Tukey's multiple comparisons test. Before IVM culture, there was no significant difference between the viability of SF and MF oocytes, but the incidence of oocytes at the GV0 stage was higher in specimens from SF than MF (24.8 v. 3.3%), and that of oocytes at the GVI stage was the opposite (57.8 in MF v. 22.7% in SF). After IVM culture, apoptotic status of oocytes was only affected by the decumulation timing. The percentage of normal live oocytes was significantly higher when CC were removed after 20 and 44 h of IVM in both SF (39.7 and 39.3 v. 17.7%) and MF (45.4 and 37 v. 22.2%). The incidence of early and late apoptotic oocytes was significantly higher when the CC were removed before IVM culture in both SF (74.3 and 7.4%) and MF (69.4 and 6.7%). The incidence of mature live oocytes was significantly affected by both the origin of COC and the decumulation timing. Although the percentage of mature oocytes was higher in MF, maturation rates were significantly higher when oocytes were denuded at 20 h of IVM culture (SF 65.4%, MF 83.1%) as compared at 0 (SF 27.9%, MF 32.3%) and 44 h (SF 41%, MF 68.5%). However, the percentage of oocytes with normal spindle morphology was significantly higher when oocytes were denuded at 44 h of IVM culture (SF 70.6%, MF 91.5%) than 20 h (SF 66.8%, MF 73%). In summary, regardless of COC from SF and MF, removal of CC at 20 h of IVM culture seems to promote meiotic progression of the oocytes to the MII stage, but factor(s) from or communication with CC during the latter half of IVM culture may be needed to obtain a normal spindle morphology in mature oocytes.
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Ferré P, Fraga I, Comesaña M, Sánchez-Casas R. Memory for emotional words: The role of semantic relatedness, encoding task and affective valence. Cogn Emot 2014; 29:1401-10. [DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2014.982515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Comesaña M, Ferré P, Romero J, Guasch M, Soares AP, García-Chico T. Facilitative effect of cognate words vanishes when reducing the orthographic overlap: The role of stimuli list composition. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 2014; 41:614-35. [PMID: 25329085 DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Recent research has shown that cognate word processing is modulated by variables such as degree of orthographic and phonological overlap of cognate words and task requirements in such a way that the typical preferential processing observed in the literature for cognate words relative to non-cognate words can be annulled or even reversed (Comesaña et al., 2012; Dijkstra, Miwa, Brummelhuis, Sappelli, & Baayen, 2010). These findings beg the question about the precise representation and processing of identical cognates (e.g., plata-plata, silver in Spanish and Catalan, respectively) and non-identical cognates (e.g., braç-brazo [arm]). The aim of the present study was to further explore this issue by manipulating for the 1st time cross-linguistic similarities of identical and non-identical cognate words as well as stimuli list composition. Proficient balanced Catalan-Spanish bilinguals performed a lexical decision task in Spanish. In Experiment 1 identical and non-identical cognates along with non-cognates made up the experimental list, whereas in Experiment 2 identical cognates were excluded from the list. Results showed modulations in cognate processing as a function of their degree of orthographic and phonological overlap. These results confirm prior findings regarding the processing of cognates when cross-linguistic similarities are taken into account. Most important, the direction of the cognate effect was affected by the stimuli list composition (i.e., the preferential processing for cognate words was restricted to the list containing identical cognates). Results have important implications for the Bilingual Interactive Activation Plus model (BIA+; Dijkstra & van Heuven, 2002), especially regarding identical and non-identical cognate word representation.
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- Department of English and German Studies, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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Sánchez-Casas R, Ferré P, Demestre J, García-Chico T, García-Albea JE. Masked and unmasked priming effects as a function of semantic relatedness and associative strength. Span J Psychol 2012; 15:891-900. [PMID: 23156899 DOI: 10.5209/rev_sjop.2012.v15.n3.39382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The study presented in this paper aimed to investigate the pattern of semantic priming effects, under masked and unmasked conditions, in the lexical decision task, manipulating type of semantic relation and associative strength. Three different kinds of word relations were examined in two experiments: only-semantically related words [e.g., codo (elbow)-rodilla (knee)] and semantic/associative related words with strong [e.g., mesa (table)-silla (chair) and weak association strength [e.g., sapo (toad)-rana (frog)]. In Experiment 1 a masked priming procedure was used with a prime duration of 56 ms, and in Experiment 2, the prime was presented unmasked for 150 ms. The results showed that there were masked priming effects with strong associates, but no evidence of these effects was found with weak associates or only-semantic related word pairs. When the prime was presented unmasked, the three types of relations produced significant priming effects and they were not influenced by association strength.
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- Rosa Sánchez-Casas
- Departament de Psicologia, Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Ctra. de Valls s/n 43007 Tarragona, Spain.
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Panasyuk G, Espeillac C, Chauvin C, Annicotte JS, Fajas L, Verdeguer F, Pontoglio M, Ferré P, Birnbaum MJ, Ricci JE, Pende M. New player in the aerobic glycolysis and liver tumorigenesis – unexplored role of PPARg. Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes 2012. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1330818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Delord JP, Ravaud A, Bennouna J, Fumoleau P, Favrel S, Pinel MC, Ferré P, Saliba F. Phase I and pharmacokinetic study of IV vinflunine in cancer patients with liver dysfunction. Invest New Drugs 2012; 31:724-33. [DOI: 10.1007/s10637-012-9878-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2012] [Accepted: 09/04/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Paridaens R, Rixe O, Pinel MC, Wildiers H, Zorza G, Ferré P, Roche H. A phase 1 study of vinflunine in combination with trastuzumab for the treatment for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 2012; 70:503-11. [DOI: 10.1007/s00280-012-1930-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2012] [Accepted: 07/14/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Hage Hassan R, Hainault I, Vilquin JT, Samama C, Lasnier F, Ferré P, Foufelle F, Hajduch E. Endoplasmic reticulum stress does not mediate palmitate-induced insulin resistance in mouse and human muscle cells. Diabetologia 2012; 55:204-14. [PMID: 22006247 DOI: 10.1007/s00125-011-2328-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2011] [Accepted: 09/09/2011] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS Recent experiments in liver and adipocyte cell lines indicate that palmitate can induce endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. Since it has been shown that ER stress can interfere with insulin signalling, our hypothesis was that the deleterious action of palmitate on the insulin signalling pathway in muscle cells could also involve ER stress. METHODS We used C2C12 and human myotubes that were treated either with palmitate or tunicamycin. Total lysates and RNA were prepared for western blotting or quantitative RT-PCR respectively. Glycogen synthesis was assessed by [¹⁴C]glucose incorporation. RESULTS Incubation of myotubes with palmitate or tunicamycin inhibited insulin-stimulated protein kinase B (PKB)/ v-akt murine thymoma viral oncogene homologue 1 (Akt). In parallel, an increase in ER stress markers was observed. Pre-incubation with chemical chaperones that reduce ER stress only prevented tunicamycin but not palmitate-induced insulin resistance. We hypothesised that ER stress activation levels induced by palmitate may not be high enough to induce insulin resistance, in contrast with tunicamycin-induced ER stress. Indeed, tunicamycin induced a robust activation of the inositol-requiring enzyme 1 (IRE-1)/c-JUN NH₂-terminal kinase (JNK) pathway, leading to serine phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS-1) and a decrease in IRS-1 tyrosine phosphorylation. In contrast, palmitate only induced a very weak activation of the IRE1/JNK pathway, with no IRS1 serine phosphorylation. CONCLUSIONS/INTERPRETATION These data show that insulin resistance induced by palmitate is not related to ER stress in muscle cells.
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- R Hage Hassan
- Inserm, UMR-S 872, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Paris 75006, France
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Guasch M, Sánchez-Casas R, Ferré P, García-Albea JE. Effects of the degree of meaning similarity on cross-language semantic priming in highly proficient bilinguals. Journal of Cognitive Psychology 2011. [DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2011.589382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Steatosis is an accumulation of triglycerides in the liver. Although an excessive availability of plasma fatty acids is an important determinant of steatosis, lipid synthesis from glucose (lipogenesis) is now also considered as an important contributing factor. Lipogenesis is an insulin- and glucose-dependent process that is under the control of specific transcription factors, sterol regulatory element binding protein 1c (SREBP-1c), activated by insulin and carbohydrate response element binding protein (ChREBP) activated by glucose. Insulin induces the maturation of SREBP-1c by a proteolytic mechanism initiated in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). SREBP-1c in turn activates glycolytic gene expression, allowing glucose metabolism, and lipogenic genes in conjunction with ChREBP. Lipogenesis activation in the liver of obese markedly insulin-resistant steatotic rodents is then paradoxical. Recent data suggest that the activation of SREBP-1c and thus of lipogenesis is secondary in the steatotic liver to an ER stress. The ER stress activates the cleavage of SREBP-1c independent of insulin, thus explaining the paradoxical stimulation of lipogenesis in an insulin-resistant liver. Inhibition of the ER stress in obese rodents decreases SREBP-1c activation and lipogenesis and improves markedly hepatic steatosis and insulin sensitivity. ER is thus a new partner in steatosis and metabolic syndrome which is worth considering as a potential therapeutic target.
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- P Ferré
- INSERM, UMR-S 872, Centre de Recherches des Cordeliers and Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris, Paris, France
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Garcia C, Feve B, Ferré P, Halimi S, Baizri H, Bordier L, Guiu G, Dupuy O, Bauduceau B, Mayaudon H. Diabetes and inflammation: fundamental aspects and clinical implications. Diabetes Metab 2010; 36:327-38. [PMID: 20851652 DOI: 10.1016/j.diabet.2010.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2010] [Revised: 07/21/2010] [Accepted: 07/22/2010] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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AIM The aim of this paper is to provide the fundamental background of the inflammation theory associated with type 2 diabetes, to discuss the clinical consequences of low-grade inflammation, particularly in terms of cardiovascular risk, and to infer some clinical therapeutic strategies deriving from drugs that already exist or are in development. METHODS This non-exhaustive work is the result of a Pubmed(®) research, based on requests including the following keywords: diabetes, inflammation, innate immunity, obesity, reticulum endoplasmic stress, cytokines, endothelial dysfunction. RESULTS Obesity and type 2 diabetes are linked with a low-grade inflammation state that reflects the activation of innate immunity where metabolic, environmental and genetic factors are implicated. The role of endoplasmic reticulum stress and unfold protein response is underlined. Inflammation markers are predictive for the risk to develop diabetes, and are associated with an increased cardiovascular risk. While lifestyle modifications are followed by an improvement in inflammation markers, treatments inferred from the inflammation theory are of great interest, although quite moderate effects on glycaemic control have been observed with some of them. CONCLUSION The development of molecules targeting different inflammatory mechanisms could lead in diabetic patients to improvement of both glycaemia and cardiovascular prognosis.
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- Service d'endocrinologie-diabétologie, hôpital d'instruction des armées Bégin, 69, avenue de Paris, 94160 St.-Mandé, France.
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Ferré P, García T, Fraga I, Sánchez-Casas R, Molero M. Memory for emotional words in bilinguals: Do words have the same emotional intensity in the first and in the second language? Cogn Emot 2010. [DOI: 10.1080/02699930902985779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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