title: Long-lasting attentional influence of negative and taboo words in an auditory variant of the emotional Stroop task.
abstract: Using an auditory adaptation of the emotional and taboo Stroop tasks, the authors compared the effects of negative and taboo spoken words in mixed and blocked designs. Both types of words elicited carryover effects with mixed presentations and interference with blocked presentations, suggesting similar long-lasting attentional effects. Both were also relatively resilient to the long-lasting influence of the preceding emotional word. Hence, contrary to what has been assumed (Schmidt & Saari, 2007), negative and taboo words do not seem to differ in terms of the temporal dynamics of the interdimensional shifting, at least in the auditory modality.
authors.affiliation: Research Unit in Cognitive Neurosciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium. jbertels@ulb.ac.be
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bertels
authors.forename: Régine
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kolinsky
authors.forename: Elise
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pietrons
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Morais
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001307:Auditory Perception; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D012660:Semantics; D057190:Stroop Test; D013609:Taboo; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult