Jhean-Larose Sandra, Leveau Nicolas, Denhière Guy
Laboratoire EDA, Education Discours Apprentissage, Université d'Orléans, Université Paris Descartes-45, Rue des Saints-Pères, 75006, Paris, France,
Cogn Process. 2014 Nov;15(4):515-22. doi: 10.1007/s10339-014-0613-5. Epub 2014 Apr 9.
Controversy still persists on whether emotional valence and arousal influence cognitive activities. Our study sought to compare how these two factors foster the spread of activation within the semantic network. In a lexical decision task, prime words were varied depending on the valence (pleasant or unpleasant) or on the level of emotional arousal (high or low). Target words were carefully selected to avoid semantic priming effects, as well as to avoid arousing specific emotions (neutral). Three SOA durations (220, 420 and 720 ms) were applied across three independent groups. Results indicate that at 220 ms, the effect of arousal is significantly higher than the effect of valence in facilitating spreading activation while at 420 ms, the effect of valence is significantly higher than the effect of arousal in facilitating spreading activation. These findings suggest that affect is a sequential process involving the successive intervention of arousal and valence.
关于情绪效价和唤醒是否会影响认知活动，争议仍然存在。我们的研究旨在比较这两个因素如何促进语义网络内激活的传播。在词汇判断任务中，启动词根据效价（愉快或不愉快）或情绪唤醒水平（高或低）而有所不同。目标词经过精心挑选，以避免语义启动效应，以及避免引发特定情绪（中性）。三个SOA持续时间（220、420和720毫秒）应用于三个独立组。结果表明，在220毫秒时，唤醒在促进传播激活方面的作用显著高于效价的作用，而在420毫秒时，效价在促进传播激活方面的作用显著高于唤醒的作用。这些发现表明，情感是一个涉及唤醒和效价相继干预的顺序过程。
