Neurocognitive poetics: methods and models for investigating the neuronal and cognitive-affective bases of literature reception

AM Jacobs - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
A long tradition of research including classical rhetoric, esthetics and poetics theory,
formalism and structuralism, as well as current perspectives in (neuro) cognitive poetics has …

The fictive brain: neurocognitive correlates of engagement in literature

AM Jacobs, RM Willems - Review of General Psychology, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Fiction is vital to our being. Many people enjoy engaging with fiction every day. Here we
focus on literary reading as 1 instance of fiction consumption from a cognitive neuroscience …

Characterization of the Nencki Affective Picture System by discrete emotional categories (NAPS BE)

M Riegel, Ł Żurawski, M Wierzba, A Moslehi… - Behavior research …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract The Nencki Affective Picture System (NAPS; Marchewka, Żurawski, Jednoróg, &
Grabowska, Behavior Research Methods, 2014) is a standardized set of 1,356 realistic, high …

Effect of emotion on memory for words and their context

M Riegel, M Wierzba, A Grabowska… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Emotion influences various cognitive processes, such as memory. This beneficial or
detrimental effect can be studied with verbal material, yet in this case a broad term of context …

Measuring the basic affective tone of poems via phonological saliency and iconicity.

A Aryani, M Kraxenberger, S Ullrich… - … , Creativity, and the …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
We investigate the relation between general affective meaning and the use of particular
phonological segments in poems, presenting a novel quantitative measure to assess the …

Why'piss' is ruder than'pee'? The role of sound in affective meaning making

A Aryani, M Conrad, D Schmidtke, A Jacobs - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Most language users agree that some words sound harsh (eg grotesque) whereas others
sound soft and pleasing (eg lagoon). While this prominent feature of human language has …

EmoPro–Emotional prototypicality for 1286 Spanish words: Relationships with affective and psycholinguistic variables

MÁ Pérez-Sánchez, H Stadthagen-Gonzalez… - Behavior research …, 2021 - Springer
We present EmoPro, a normative study of the emotion lexicon of the Spanish language. We
provide emotional prototypicality ratings for 1286 emotion words (ie, those that refer to …

10 years of BAWLing into affective and aesthetic processes in reading: what are the echoes?

AM Jacobs, MLH Võ, BB Briesemeister… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Reading is not only “cold” information processing, but involves affective and aesthetic
processes that go far beyond what current models of word recognition, sentence processing …

Norms for 10,491 Spanish words for five discrete emotions: Happiness, disgust, anger, fear, and sadness

H Stadthagen-González, P Ferré… - Behavior research …, 2018 - Springer
The discrete emotion theory proposes that affective experiences can be reduced to a limited
set of universal “basic” emotions, most commonly identified as happiness, sadness, anger …

EmoFinder: The meeting point for Spanish emotional words

I Fraga, M Guasch, J Haro, I Padrón, P Ferré - Behavior Research Methods, 2018 - Springer
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 …