28.5105, Books: That's frowned upon: Hart

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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 14:17:17
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: That's frowned upon: Hart

 


Title: That's frowned upon 
Subtitle: Using facial EMG to track evaluation and simulation during affective
language processing 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/thats-frowned-upon 


Author: Björn 't Hart

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932533 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

Using facial EMG to track evaluation and simulation during affective
language processing.

This dissertation investigates the way affectively salient language describing
emotions and emotional events is processed. The main aim in the experiments
presented here is an investigation of the claim made by the theory of grounded
language comprehension regarding the presence of simulation (whether necessary
or epiphenomenal) during (affective) language comprehension. This is
investigated in a narrative context where the characters to whom the affective
language pertains are manipulated to be viewed favourably or unfavourably by
the reader. Through this manipulation, language-driven simulation and
emotional evaluation are contrasted. These processes of simulation and
evaluation are measured through the use of facial electromyography (EMG) to
measure action potentials in the corrugator supercilii, or ‘frowning muscle’.

The main finding in this thesis is that a simulation-only account of
corrugator activity during language processing is untenable. At the same time,
the results also do not support an interpretation of the facial EMG results in
terms of only evaluation. Rather it seems both cognitive processes are active
simultaneously and make their influence felt on the corrugator during online
language comprehension.

This book is of interest to theoretical linguists, as well as experimental
cognitive & psycholinguists working on questions regarding how language
comprehension comes about. At the same time, the work herein should also be of
interest to narrative researchers engaged with questions regarding our
engagement with story characters. More generally, communication & media and
(social) psychology researchers may find this work relevant in relation to our
affective engagement with disliked or immoral people.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Psycholinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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