Siakaluk Paul D, Knol Nathan, Pexman Penny M
Department of Psychology, University of Northern British Columbia.
Cogn Sci. 2014 Nov-Dec;38(8):1698-717. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12137. Epub 2014 Jun 26.
In this study, we examined the effects of emotional experience, a relatively new dimension of emotional knowledge that gauges the ease with which words evoke emotional experience, on abstract word processing in the Stroop task. In order to test the context-dependency of these effects, we accentuated the saliency of this dimension in Experiment 1A by blocking the stimuli such that one block consisted of the stimuli with the highest emotional experience ratings and the other block consisted of the stimuli with the lowest emotional experience ratings. We attenuated the saliency of this dimension in Experiment 1B by intermixing the stimuli. We observed slower color naming performance for words with higher emotional experience ratings only in Experiment 1A, suggesting that the dimension of emotional experience is an aspect of semantic representation for abstract words but that its influence can be modulated by context. We interpret these results more generally using Vigliocco, Meteyard, Andrews, and Kousta's (2009) framework of semantic representation, and more specifically using Cohen, Dunbar, and McClelland's (1990) model of Stroop task performance.
在本研究中，我们考察了情绪体验（情绪知识的一个相对较新的维度，衡量词语唤起情绪体验的难易程度）对斯特鲁普任务中抽象词加工的影响。为了测试这些影响的情境依赖性，我们在实验1A中通过对刺激进行分块来突出这一维度的显著性，使得一个块由情绪体验评分最高的刺激组成，另一个块由情绪体验评分最低的刺激组成。在实验1B中，我们通过混合刺激来减弱这一维度的显著性。我们仅在实验1A中观察到，对于情绪体验评分较高的词语，颜色命名表现更慢，这表明情绪体验维度是抽象词语义表征的一个方面，但其影响可受情境调节。我们使用维廖科、梅泰亚德、安德鲁斯和库斯塔（2009）的语义表征框架更全面地解释这些结果，更具体地说，使用科恩、邓巴和麦克莱兰（1990）的斯特鲁普任务表现模型来解释。
