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Affective iconic words benefit from additional sound-meaning integration in the left amygdala.
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- The influence of iconicity and autistic traits on novel word learning: a cross-cultural investigation.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Age-related decline in cognitive flexibility and inadequate preparation: evidence from task-state network analysis.GeroScience · 2024Article
- Processing different types of iconicity in Chinese transferred epithet comprehension: An ERP study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The Relationships Between Initial Consonants in Japanese Sound Symbolic Words and Familiarity, Multi-Sensory Imageability, Emotional Valence, and Arousal.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2021Article
- Iconicity ratings for 10,995 Spanish words and their relationship with psycholinguistic variables.Behavior research methods · 2021Article
- Neuroimaging of valence decisions in children and adults.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2021Article
- Semantics Based on the Physical Characteristics of Facial Expressions Used to Produce Japanese Vowels.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Affective Arousal Links Sound to Meaning.Psychological science · 2020Article
- Affective iconic words benefit from additional sound-meaning integration in the left amygdala.Human brain mapping · 2019Article
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Recent studies have shown that a similarity between sound and meaning of a word (i.e., iconicity) can help more readily access the meaning of that word, but the neural mechanisms underlying this beneficial role of iconicity in semantic processing remain largely unknown. In an fMRI study, we focused on the affective domain and examined whether affective iconic words (e.g., high arousal in both sound and meaning) activate additional brain regions that integrate emotional information from different domains (i.e., sound and meaning). In line with our hypothesis, affective iconic words, compared to their non-iconic counterparts, elicited additional BOLD responses in the left amygdala known for its role in multimodal representation of emotions. Functional connectivity analyses revealed that the observed amygdalar activity was modulated by an interaction of iconic condition and activations in two hubs representative for processing sound (left superior temporal gyrus) and meaning (left inferior frontal gyrus) of words. These results provide a neural explanation for the facilitative role of iconicity in language processing and indicate that language users are sensitive to the interaction between sound and meaning aspect of words, suggesting the existence of iconicity as a general property of human language.
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