Affective Language Processing: Language-driven Evaluation of Character Affect in Morally Loaded Narratives Reading negative affect adjectives, e.g.,’angry’, generally elicits increased activation of the corrugator supercilii (‘frowning muscle’), while positive adjectives, e.g., ‘happy’, can cause relaxation. This is presumably a result of mental simulation. In a moral context, the corrugator may also be affected by evaluation,…

Alternate categorization: a formal-conceptual semantics of reciprocal alternations In this talk, we present an experimental study that investigates how the different forms of a reciprocal verbs are connected to each other. Reciprocal verbs as hug, fight and collide alternate between a unary collective form (1), a “with” form (2) and a binary form (3): Wendy…

Familiar false facts vs. novel truths: The influence of readers’ background knowledge on processing and acquiring false information I will present an ERP study that investigates how conceptual knowledge supports comprehension and learning (i.e., a familiarity effect) and protects against accepting false information (i.e., false information effect) both during learning and during later memory retrieval….