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    "pk": 25660,
    "title": "The Effect of Facial Emotion and Action Depiction on Situated Language\nProcessing",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Two visual world eye-tracking studies investigated the\neffect of emotions and actions on sentence processing.\nPositively emotionally valenced German non-canonical\nobject-verb-subject (OVS) sentences were paired with a\nscene depicting three characters (agent-patient-distractor)\nas either performing the action described by the sentence,\nor not performing any actions. These scene-sentence pairs\nwere preceded by a positive prime in the form of a happy\nlooking smiley (vs. no smiley) in experiment 1 and in the\nform of a natural positive facial expression (vs. a negative\nfacial expression) in experiment 2. Previous research has\ndemonstrated the effect of action depiction on sentence\nprocessing of German OVS sentences (Knoeferle, Crocker,\nScheepers, & Pickering, 2005). Moreover, emotional\npriming facilitates sentence processing for older and\nyounger adults (Carminati & Knoeferle, 2013). However,\nup to date there is no evidence as to whether schematic\nfaces such as smileys are as effective as natural faces in\nfacilitating sentence processing. These insights lead to the\nhypotheses that participants would not only profit from\ndepicted events, but that processing of OVS sentences\nmight also be positively affected by emotional cues. Plus,\nwe assessed the degree of naturalness the emotional face\nneeds to possess to affect sentence processing. Results\nreplicate the predicted effect of action depiction (vs. no\naction depiction). The expected facilitatory effect of\nemotional prime is trending in both experiments. However,\nthe effect is more pronounced in the natural face version\n(exp. 2) than in the smiley version (exp. 1).",
    "language": "eng",
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Sentence Processing; Visual World Paradigm;\nvisually situated language comprehension; eye movements;\nemotional priming; iconic"
        },
        {
            "word": "natural facial expression"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5j6095zk",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Katja",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Munster",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Bielefeld University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Maria",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Nella",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Bielefeld University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Pia",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Knoeferle",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Bielefeld University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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