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On emotion-cognition integration: The effect of happy and sad moods on language comprehension
1Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC),University of Trento,38123 Trento,Italy.giovanna.egidi@unitn.itwww.egidi.eu.
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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