Tracking Affective Language Comprehension: Simulating and Evaluating Character Affect in Morally Loaded Narratives

Facial electromyography research shows that corrugator supercilii (“frowning muscle”) activity tracks the emotional valence of linguistic stimuli. Grounded or embodied accounts of language processing take such activity to reflect the simulation or “re-enactment” of emotion, as part of the retrieval...

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Main Authors: Björn ‘t Hart, Marijn E. Struiksma, Anton van Boxtel, Jos J. A. van Berkum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00318/full