The role of age and emotional valence in word recognition: An ex-Gaussian analysis
The aim of this work is to evaluate the roles of age and emotional valence in word recognition in terms of ex-Gaussian distribution components. In order to do that, a word recognition task was carried out with two age groups, in which emotional valence was manipulated. Older participants did not pre...
| Autores: | , , , , , , , , , |
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Data de publicação: | 2015 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir |
| Repositório: | RIUCV. Repositorio de la Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riucv.ucv.es:20.500.12466/5546 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12466/5546 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Word recognition Emotional valence Ex-Gaussian components 61 Psicología |
| Resumo: | The aim of this work is to evaluate the roles of age and emotional valence in word recognition in terms of ex-Gaussian distribution components. In order to do that, a word recognition task was carried out with two age groups, in which emotional valence was manipulated. Older participants did not present a clear trend for reaction times. The younger participants showed significant statistical differences in negative words for target and distracting conditions. Address- ing the ex-Gaussian τ parameter, often related to attentional demands in the literature, age- related differences in emotional valence seem not to have an effect for negative words. Focusing on emotional valence for each group, the younger participants only showed an effect on negative distracting words. The older participants showed an effect regarding negative and positive target words, and negative distracting words. This suggests that the attentional demand is higher for emotional words, in particular, for the older participants. |
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