Standard neurocognitive models of language processing have tended to obviate the need
for incorporating emotion processes, while affective neuroscience theories have typically …

Recent decades have ushered in tremendous progress in understanding the neural basis of
language. Most of our current knowledge on language and the brain, however, is derived …

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 …

This study presents the results of the adaptation of the International Affective Picture System
(IAPS) for European Portuguese (EP). Following the original procedure of Lang et al., 2000 …

Semantics and syntax are core components of language. The prevailing view was that
processing of word meaning and syntactic processing happens in isolation from other …

Positive and negative moods tend to have differential effects on lexico-semantic processing
in the native language (L1). Though accumulating evidence points to dampened sensitivity …

Emotions are often expressed metaphorically, and both emotion and metaphor are ways
through which abstract meaning can be grounded in language. Here we investigate …

In our target article (Hinojosa et al., 2019. Affective neurolinguistics: Towards a framework
for reconciling language and emotion. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1–27 …

More and more findings suggest a tight temporal coupling between (non-linguistic) socially
interpreted context and language processing. Still, real-time language processing accounts …

Recent studies demonstrate that syntactic processing can be affected by emotional
information and that subliminal emotional information can also affect cognitive processes. In …