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Word categorization under facial musculature manipulation.
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The facial feedback hypothesis (FFH) indicates that besides being involved in the production of facial expressions, the musculature of the face also influences one’s perception of emotional stimuli. Recently, this effect has been the focus of increased scrutiny as efforts to replicate a key study with adult participants supporting this hypothesis,...
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... = 0.001, partial η 2 = 0.003] with the gap between the accuracy of categorizing positive and negative words being larger in magnitude in children compared to adults. We found no significant main effect of the congruency of the embodiment condition or interactions between this factor and any of the other factors (see Table 2). ...Context 2
... < 0.001, partial η 2 = 0.005], with the gap between the speed of categorizing positive and negative words being individually significant in children but not adults. We found no significant main effect of the congruency of the embodiment condition or interactions between this factor and any of the other factors (see Table 2). ...Citations
... What we call mind is a 'process' constituted by the continuous recycling and re-organisation of mind-stuff, i.e., a cognitive becoming (Malafouris, 2019, p. 5). Certainly, unorthodox paradigms of cognition have meant a shift in our theoretical understanding of such diverse issues as motor skills and their development (e.g., Adolph, 2019;Di Paolo, 2019;Travieso et al., 2020), emotions (e.g., Colombetti, 2007;Vesker et al., 2020), concepts (e.g., Alessandroni, 2020;Overmann, 2019), memory (e.g., Michaelian & Sant'Anna, 2021), language (e.g., Cuffari et al., 2014;Di Paolo et al., 2018;Gallagher, 2020) and social cognition (e.g., De Jaegher et al., 2010;Gallagher & Allen, 2018;Lindblom, 2020), among others. However, there is still a long way to go in the methodological field. ...
Classical theories of intersubjectivity hold that the first interactions in which children participate are dyadic (adult-baby). However, thanks to the material shift that is taking place in the cognitive sciences, an increasing number of authors began to recognise the constitutive role that materiality has for cognition, from the very beginning of life. Interactions do not occur in a vacuum, but within a meaning-loaded material world that adults actively seek to bring to children. While in the field of dyadic interactions studies on communicative musicality have shown how interactive exchanges are structured and how that structure unfolds over time, little is known yet about the internal structure of early triadic interactions. In this paper, we propose a longitudinal, mixed and multilevel methodological framework aimed at describing the dynamics of the musical organisation of early triadic interactions between adults, babies and things, and its development over different timescales. We conclude that if researchers want to fully understand early triadic interactions and their musical structuring, further studies that take into account the cognitive relevance of things and the dynamics of our interactions with and through materiality are needed.
... In addition to language differences, affective meanings of words seem to vary with age. Age-related differences in emotional context have been evidenced when words were rated by children and adults (Monnier and Syssau, 2017;Vesker et al., 2018Vesker et al., , 2020Morningstar et al., 2019;Sabater et al., 2020). The available evidence suggested that young children's ratings of valence were more extreme than those of adolescents and adults (Monnier and Syssau, 2017;Vesker et al., 2018). ...
Information on age-related differences in affective meanings of words is widely used by researchers to study emotions, word recognition, attention, memory, and text-based sentiment analysis. To date, no Chinese affective norms for older adults are available although Chinese as a spoken language has the largest population in the world. This article presents the first large-scale age-related affective norms for 2,061 four-character Chinese words (AANC). Each word in this database has rating values in the four dimensions, namely, valence, arousal, dominance, and familiarity. We found that older adults tended to perceive positive words as more arousing and less controllable and evaluate negative words as less arousing and more controllable than younger adults did. This indicates that the positivity effect is reliable for older adults who show a processing bias toward positive vs. negative words. Our AANC database supplies valuable information for researchers to study how emotional characteristics of words influence the cognitive processes and how this influence evolves with age. This age-related difference study on affective norms not only provides a tool for cognitive science, gerontology, and psychology in experimental studies but also serves as a valuable resource for affective analysis in various natural language processing applications.
