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  • 2013Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.artnumber","e70314"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","7"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","PLoS ONE"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","8"],["dc.contributor.author","Sommer, Werner"],["dc.contributor.author","Stürmer, Birgit"],["dc.contributor.author","Shmuilovich, Olga"],["dc.contributor.author","Martin-Loeches, Manuel"],["dc.contributor.author","Schacht, Annekathrin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:53:43Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:53:43Z"],["dc.date.issued","2013"],["dc.description.abstract","Although research addresses the effects of a meal’s context on food preference, the psychological consequences of meal situations are largely unexplored. We compared the cognitive and emotional effects of a restaurant meal eaten in the company of others to a solitary meal consumed in a plain office using pre- and post-tests analysis and controlling for the kind and amount of food consumed. Three tasks were conducted, measuring: (1) semantic memory (2) cognitive control and error monitoring, and (3) processing of emotional facial expressions. Covert processes in these tasks were assessed with event-related brain potentials. A mood rating questionnaire indicated a relaxation effect of the restaurant as compared to the plain meal situation. The restaurant meal increased sensitivity to threatening facial expressions and diminished cognitive control and error monitoring. No effects were observed for semantic memory. These findings provide the first experimental evidence that a restaurant meal with a social component may be more relaxing than a meal eaten alone in a plain setting and may reduce cognitive control."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1371/journal.pone.0070314"],["dc.identifier.gro","3151354"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/9208"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/8148"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","Merged from goescholar"],["dc.notes.status","public"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.relation.issn","1932-6203"],["dc.rights","CC BY 2.5"],["dc.rights.uri","https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5"],["dc.title","How about Lunch? Consequences of the Meal Context on Cognition and Emotion"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2011Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.artnumber","335"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Frontiers in Psychology"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","2"],["dc.contributor.affiliation","Stürmer, Birgit; 1Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Berlin, Germany"],["dc.contributor.affiliation","Nigbur, Roland; 1Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Berlin, Germany"],["dc.contributor.affiliation","Schacht, Annekathrin; 2Courant Research Centre Text Structures, University of Göttingen Göttingen, Germany"],["dc.contributor.affiliation","Sommer, Werner; 1Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Berlin, Germany"],["dc.contributor.author","Stürmer, Birgit"],["dc.contributor.author","Nigbur, Roland"],["dc.contributor.author","Schacht, Annekathrin"],["dc.contributor.author","Sommer, Werner"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:53:52Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:53:52Z"],["dc.date.issued","2011"],["dc.date.updated","2022-02-09T13:22:51Z"],["dc.description.abstract","Recently, positive affect has been reported to reduce cognitive conflicts and adaptations related to conflict control. van Steenbergen et al. (2009) proposed that the aversive quality of conflicts drives short-term adaptations following a conflict. They reasoned that monetary gain and its positive emotional consequences might counteract the aversive quality of conflict and hence reduce subsequent adaptations. In two experiments, we combined Simon-type conflicts with monetary gains and losses in between trials and analyzed event-related brain potentials. In Experiment 1, gains and losses occurred randomly between trials as a lottery, whereas in Experiment 2 gains and losses were contingent upon performance, either rewarding the 25% fastest responses or penalizing the 25% slowest responses. In Experiment 1, conflict adaptation was completely unaffected by gains or losses; contrary to predictions, in Experiment 2, conflict adaptation in reward blocks was more pronounced after a gain. In Experiment 2 we also investigated the error-related negativity (ERN) – a brain signal proposed to be related to performance monitoring. The ERN and behavioral post-error slowing were enlarged in the context of reward; therefore, reward increases error adaptation, possibly by enhancing the subjective value of errors. In conclusion, affective modulations of conflict adaptations seem to be much more limited than previously asserted and adaptive mechanisms triggered by errors and conflicts dissociate."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00335"],["dc.identifier.eissn","1664-1078"],["dc.identifier.gro","3151405"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/8203"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DeepGreen Import"],["dc.notes.status","public"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.publisher","Frontiers Research Foundation"],["dc.relation.eissn","1664-1078"],["dc.relation.issn","1664-1078"],["dc.rights","http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement"],["dc.rights.uri","http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement"],["dc.title","Reward and punishment effects on error processing and conflict control"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2015Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","108"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Biological Psychology"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","116"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","114"],["dc.contributor.author","Maruo, Yuya"],["dc.contributor.author","Schacht, Annekathrin"],["dc.contributor.author","Sommer, Werner"],["dc.contributor.author","Masaki, Hiroaki"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:53:44Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:53:44Z"],["dc.date.issued","2015"],["dc.description.abstract","Affect and motivation influence the error-related negativity (ERN) elicited by full errors; however, it is unknown whether they also influence ERNs to correct responses accompanied by covert incorrect response activation (partial errors). Here we compared a neutral condition with conditions, where correct responses were rewarded or where incorrect responses were punished with gains and losses of small amounts of money, respectively. Data analysis distinguished ERNs elicited by full and partial errors. In the reward and punishment conditions, ERN amplitudes to both full and partial errors were larger than in the neutral condition, confirming participants’ sensitivity to the significance of errors. We also investigated the relationships between ERN amplitudes and the behavioral inhibition and activation systems (BIS/BAS). Regardless of reward/punishment condition, participants scoring higher on BAS showed smaller ERN amplitudes in full error trials. These findings provide further evidence that the ERN is related to motivational valence and that similar relationships hold for both full and partial errors."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.12.004"],["dc.identifier.gro","3151361"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/14076"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/8156"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","Merged from goescholar"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.relation.issn","0301-0511"],["dc.rights","CC BY-NC-ND 4.0"],["dc.rights.uri","https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"],["dc.title","Impacts of motivational valence on the error-related negativity elicited by full and partial errors"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2014Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.artnumber","e91226"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","3"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","PLoS ONE"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","9"],["dc.contributor.author","Schacht, Annekathrin"],["dc.contributor.author","Sommer, Werner"],["dc.contributor.author","Shmuilovich, Olga"],["dc.contributor.author","Martíenz, Pilar Casado"],["dc.contributor.author","Martín-Loeches, Manuel"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:53:43Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:53:43Z"],["dc.date.issued","2014"],["dc.description.abstract","Syntactic violations in sentences elicit a P600 component in the event-related potential, which is frequently interpreted as signaling reanalysis or repair of the sentence structure. However, P600 components have been reported also for semantic and combined semantic and syntactic violations, giving rise to still other interpretations. In many of these studies, the violation might be of special significance for the task of the participants; however there is a lack of studies directly targeting task effects on the P600. Here we repeated a previously published study but using a probe verification task, focusing on individual words rather than on sentence correctness and directly compared the results with the previous ones. Although a (somewhat smaller) N400 component occurred also in the present study, we did not observe a parietal P600 component. Instead, we found a late anterior negativity. Possibly, the parietal P600 observed in sentence acceptability paradigms relates to the target value of the violations or to late sentence structure-specific processes that are more task-sensitive than the N400 and which are or not initiated in the probe verification task. In any case the present findings show a strong dependency of P600-eliciting processes from attention to the sentences context whereas the N400 eliciting processes appear relatively robust."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1371/journal.pone.0091226"],["dc.identifier.gro","3151349"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/11606"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/8143"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","Merged from goescholar"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.relation.issn","1932-6203"],["dc.rights","CC BY 4.0"],["dc.rights.uri","https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"],["dc.title","Differential Task Effects on N400 and P600 Elicited by Semantic and Syntactic Violations"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2012Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.artnumber","e33718"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","3"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","PLoS ONE"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","7"],["dc.contributor.author","Jiménez-Ortega, Laura"],["dc.contributor.author","Martín-Loeches, Manuel"],["dc.contributor.author","Casado, Pilar"],["dc.contributor.author","Sel, Alejandra"],["dc.contributor.author","Fondevila, Sabela"],["dc.contributor.author","Tejada, Pilar Herreros de"],["dc.contributor.author","Schacht, Annekathrin"],["dc.contributor.author","Sommer, Werner"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:53:45Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:53:45Z"],["dc.date.issued","2012"],["dc.description.abstract","Emotion effects on cognition have often been reported. However, only few studies investigated emotional effects on subsequent language processing, and in most cases these effects were induced by non-linguistic stimuli such as films, faces, or pictures. Here, we investigated how a paragraph of positive, negative, or neutral emotional valence affects the processing of a subsequent emotionally neutral sentence, which contained either semantic, syntactic, or no violation, respectively, by means of event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Behavioral data revealed strong effects of emotion; error rates and reaction times increased significantly in sentences preceded by a positive paragraph relative to negative and neutral ones. In ERPs, the N400 to semantic violations was not affected by emotion. In the syntactic experiment, however, clear emotion effects were observed on ERPs. The left anterior negativity (LAN) to syntactic violations, which was not visible in the neutral condition, was present in the negative and positive conditions. This is interpreted as reflecting modulatory effects of prior emotions on syntactic processing, which is discussed in the light of three alternative or complementary explanations based on emotion-induced cognitive styles, working memory, and arousal models. The present effects of emotion on the LAN are especially remarkable considering that syntactic processing has often been regarded as encapsulated and autonomous."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1371/journal.pone.0033718"],["dc.identifier.gro","3151359"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/7866"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/8154"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","Merged from goescholar"],["dc.notes.status","public"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.relation.issn","1932-6203"],["dc.rights","CC BY 2.5"],["dc.rights.uri","https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5"],["dc.title","How the Emotional Content of Discourse Affects Language Comprehension"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2014Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Frontiers in Psychology"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","5"],["dc.contributor.affiliation","Wilhelm, Oliver; 1Department of Psychology, Ulm University Ulm, Germany"],["dc.contributor.affiliation","Hildebrandt, Andrea; 2Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Berlin, Germany"],["dc.contributor.affiliation","Manske, Karsten; 1Department of Psychology, Ulm University Ulm, Germany"],["dc.contributor.affiliation","Schacht, Annekathrin; 3CRC Text Structures, University of Göttingen Göttingen, Germany"],["dc.contributor.affiliation","Sommer, Werner; 2Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Berlin, Germany"],["dc.contributor.author","Wilhelm, Oliver"],["dc.contributor.author","Hildebrandt, Andrea"],["dc.contributor.author","Manske, Karsten"],["dc.contributor.author","Schacht, Annekathrin"],["dc.contributor.author","Sommer, Werner"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:53:50Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:53:50Z"],["dc.date.issued","2014"],["dc.date.updated","2022-02-09T13:22:49Z"],["dc.description.abstract","Despite the importance of perceiving and recognizing facial expressions in everyday life, there is no comprehensive test battery for the multivariate assessment of these abilities. As a first step toward such a compilation, we present 16 tasks that measure the perception and recognition of facial emotion expressions, and data illustrating each task's difficulty and reliability. The scoring of these tasks focuses on either the speed or accuracy of performance. A sample of 269 healthy young adults completed all tasks. In general, accuracy and reaction time measures for emotion-general scores showed acceptable and high estimates of internal consistency and factor reliability. Emotion-specific scores yielded lower reliabilities, yet high enough to encourage further studies with such measures. Analyses of task difficulty revealed that all tasks are suitable for measuring emotion perception and emotion recognition related abilities in normal populations."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00404"],["dc.identifier.eissn","1664-1078"],["dc.identifier.gro","3151395"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/11808"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/8192"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","Merged from goescholar"],["dc.notes.status","public"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.publisher","Frontiers Media S.A."],["dc.relation.eissn","1664-1078"],["dc.relation.issn","1664-1078"],["dc.rights","CC BY 3.0"],["dc.rights.uri","https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0"],["dc.title","Test battery for measuring the perception and recognition of facial expressions of emotion"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2012Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","1"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","5"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","PLoS ONE"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","6"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","7"],["dc.contributor.author","Bayer, Mareike"],["dc.contributor.author","Sommer, Werner"],["dc.contributor.author","Schacht, Annekathrin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:53:47Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:53:47Z"],["dc.date.issued","2012"],["dc.description.abstract","For emotional pictures with fear-, disgust-, or sex-related contents, stimulus size has been shown to increase emotion effects in attention-related event-related potentials (ERPs), presumably reflecting the enhanced biological impact of larger emotion-inducing pictures. If this is true, size should not enhance emotion effects for written words with symbolic and acquired meaning. Here, we investigated ERP effects of font size for emotional and neutral words. While P1 and N1 amplitudes were not affected by emotion, the early posterior negativity started earlier and lasted longer for large relative to small words. These results suggest that emotion-driven facilitation of attention is not necessarily based on biological relevance, but might generalize to stimuli with arbitrary perceptual features. This finding points to the high relevance of written language in today's society as an important source of emotional meaning."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1371/journal.pone.0036042"],["dc.identifier.gro","3151376"],["dc.identifier.pmid","22590518"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/7873"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/8171"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","Merged from goescholar"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.relation.issn","1932-6203"],["dc.rights","CC BY 2.5"],["dc.rights.uri","https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5"],["dc.title","Font Size Matters—Emotion and Attention in Cortical Responses to Written Words"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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