The paper introduces a new perspective on abstract concepts (eg “freedom”) and their
associate words representation, the Words As social Tools (WAT) view. Traditional theories …

Emotional valence is predominately conveyed in social interactions by words and facial
expressions. The existence of broad biases which favor more efficient processing of positive …

The mechanisms underlying analgesia related to social touch are not clear. While recent
research highlights the role of the empathy of the observer to pain relief in the target, the …

This paper explores the effects of emotions embedded in a seller review on its perceived
helpfulness to readers. Drawing on frameworks in literature on emotion and cognitive …

Event-related potentials (ERPs) have been used for decades to study perception, cognition,
emotion, neurological and psychiatric disorders, and lifespan development. ERPs consist of …

Current knowledge on the architecture of exogenous attention (also called automatic, bottom-
up, or stimulus-driven attention, among other terms) has been mainly obtained from studies …

It is generally assumed that abstract concepts are linguistically coded, in line with imaging
evidence of greater engagement of the left perisylvian language network for abstract than …

Although much is known about the representation and processing of concrete concepts,
knowledge of what abstract semantics might be is severely limited. In this article we first …

A growing body of literature investigating the neural correlates of emotion word processing
has emerged in recent years. Written words have been shown to represent a suitable means …

Interest in the neuroscience of emotion has increased dramatically over the course of the
last two decades. The rapid growth and popularity, however, have come with a definitional …