An investigation on the concepts and semantic properties of emotion words

• Main Authors: Yueh-LinTsai, 蔡岳霖
• Other Authors: Jon-Fan Hu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26289021533737758141

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 心理學系認知科學碩士班 === 103 === Up to now, there are still debates about the contents and the bases of human semantic processing. An important issue is concerned whether different kinds of stimuli have different properties in their semantic representations. However, although evidences have showed differences between emotion words, as one type of abstract words, and general abstracted words exist, still fewer researches ever tried to explore the distinct semantic representational components of emotion words. Hence, the goal of the present study is to further examine related accounts focusing on the semantic representations of emotion words. The study results illustrate the unique patterns of semantic properties of emotion words compared to other types of words. Moreover, while arranging the semantic properties of emotion words upon a neutrally inspired Self-Organizing Maps model, the semantic distances calculated in the, computational model could persuasively predict the result of priming task. According to the results of the present study, the author of the present thesis proposed an integrated two-system hypothesis speculating the semantic representations and processing of emotion words.