Standard neurocognitive models of language processing have tended to obviate the need
for incorporating emotion processes, while affective neuroscience theories have typically …

Studies of semantic variables (eg, concreteness) and affective variables (ie, valence and
arousal) have traditionally tended to run in different directions. However, in recent years …

The present paper addresses two under-studied dimensions of novel word learning. We ask
(a) whether originally meaningless novel words can acquire emotional connotations from …

We present here emoFinder (http://usc. es/pcc/emofinder), a Web-based search engine for
Spanish word properties taken from different normative databases. The tool incorporates …

The current study presents ratings by 540 Spanish native speakers for dominance,
familiarity, subjective age of acquisition (AoA), and sensory experience (SER) for the 875 …

Learning new content and vocabulary in a foreign language can be particularly difficult. Yet,
there are educational programs that require people to study in a language they are not …

Communication is an arena of expression, exchange, and sharing of people's thoughts,
opinions, beliefs, feelings, or attitudes. Two essential, interacting and integral expressive …

We used a novel linguistic training paradigm to investigate the experience-dependent
acquisition, representation, and processing of novel emotional and neutral abstract …

We report on the development of a high-order harmonic generation (HHG)-based ultrafast
high-repetition-rate (250 kHz) monochromatic extreme ultraviolet (21.6 eV) source with …

Abstract and concrete words differ in their cognitive and neuronal underpinnings, but the
exact mechanisms underlying these distinctions are unclear. We investigated differences …