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On emotion-cognition integration: The effect of happy and sad moods on language comprehension

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2015

Giovanna Egidi
Giovanna Egidi*
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Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy. giovanna.egidi@unitn.it www.egidi.eu
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Abstract

I comment on Pessoa's (2013) idea that the interaction between emotion and cognition cannot be reduced to mutual interference. As an example that bolsters Pessoa's position, I discuss the effects of happy and sad moods on discourse and sentence comprehension. I distinguish between the effects of moods elicited without participants' knowledge (incidental) and moods elicited with participants' contribution (constructed).

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e73
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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