title: On emotion-cognition integration: The effect of happy and sad moods on language comprehension.
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).
authors.affiliation: Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC),University of Trento,38123 Trento,Italy.giovanna.egidi@unitn.itwww.egidi.eu.
authors.forename: Giovanna
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Egidi
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D032882:Comprehension; D004644:Emotions; D006240:Happiness; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language