The impact of emotional content on pseudoword recognition

The present study investigates the influence of emotional information on language processing. To this aim, we measured behavioral responses and event-related brain potentials (ERPs) during four Italian lexical decision experiments in which we used emotionally intense and neutral pseudowords-i.e., pseudowords derived from changing one letter in a word (e.g., cammelto, derived from cammello 'camel' vs. copezzolo, from capezzolo 'nipple')-as...