A5024849291- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Humor Studies and Applications
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Emotional Intelligence and Performance
- Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
- Digital Communication and Language
- Impact of AI and Big Data on Business and Society
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Digital Storytelling and Education
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Mental Health via Writing
University of Arizona
2021-2025
Women are widely assumed to be more talkative than men. Challenging this assumption, Mehl et al. (2007) provided empirical evidence that men and women do not differ significantly in their daily word use, speaking about 16,000 words per day (WPD) each. However, concerns were raised sample was too small yield generalizable estimates age context homogeneous permit inferences beyond college students. This registered report replicated extended the previous study of binary gender differences use...
This study investigated the role of self-construal and language background in irony interpretation. Prior research considered either cultural or background, but not both. Spanish–English bilinguals ( N = 152) from U.S. Mexico rated stories containing ironic literal statements English Spanish, then completed Language History Questionnaire, Self-construal Scale, Sarcasm-self-report scale (SSS). Results showed that items were as less when presented Spanish compared to English. Further,...
Introduction: Individuals’ construals of aging capture how they think aging, and what well means to them. Assessing such is important for understanding attitudes towards and, ultimately, tailor personalized interventions an individual.Methods: We analyzed 100 younger adults 92 older adults’ spoken narratives them using two language analysis approaches, closed vocabulary, word-count via Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC) open word-co-occurrence topic modelling. Results: Younger differed in...
Introduction: Individuals’ construals of aging capture how they think aging, and what well means to them. Assessing such is important for understanding attitudes towards and, ultimately, tailor personalized interventions an individual.Methods: We analyzed 100 younger adults 92 older adults’ spoken narratives them using two language analysis approaches, closed vocabulary, word-count via Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC) open word-co-occurrence topic modelling. Results: Younger differed in...
INTRODUCTION: Studying what older adults say can provide important insights into cognitive, affective, and social aspects of aging. Available language analysis tools generally require audio-recorded speech to be transcribed verbatim text, a task that has historically been performed by humans. However, recent advances in AI-based processing open up the possibility replacing this time resource intensive with fully automatic speech-to-text. METHODS: This study evaluates accuracy two common...
Introduction: Individuals’ construals of aging capture how they think aging, and what well means to them. Assessing such is important for understanding attitudes towards and, ultimately, tailor personalized interventions an individual. Methods: We analyzed 100 younger adults 92 older adults’ spoken narratives them using two language analysis approaches, closed vocabulary, word-count via Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC) open word-co-occurrence topic modelling. Results: Younger differed in...
In this commentary we draw attention to a context involving mixed and ambiguous emotions: verbal irony. Irony is frequently used, evokes emotional responses (e.g., criticism amusement), has been the focus of recent cognitive neuroscience research. Yet, irony primarily studied as linguistic device, rarely considered by emotion researchers. Similarly, linguistics not when studying We argue that offers rich opportunities evoke study emotions, might provide advantages for testing MA-EM model.
Verbal irony is pervasive in social interaction, presumably because it can be used to achieve a number of communicative goals and effects. In general, verbal has reputation for having negative effects, but this article we present evidence the cognitive, social, emotional benefits demonstrate potential form language provide crucial psychological insights. The power lies its ability create meaning that conflict with literal meaning—thus altering our understanding by doing so enhancing...
Current cognitive assessments suffer from floor/ceiling and practice effects, poor psychometric performance in mild cases, repeated assessment effects. This study explores the use of digital speech analysis as an alternative tool for determining impairment. The specifically focuses on identifying biomarkers associated with impairment its severity.
This study used ratings and event-related potentials (ERPs) to compare the mechanisms through which verbal irony cognitive reappraisal mitigate negative emotion. Verbal is when literal meaning of words contrasts with their intended meaning. Cognitive we reconsider emotional stimuli make them less intense. Our hypothesis was that a potential mechanism reduces Participants viewed mildly pictures first, then read an ironic or statement about it in one block, attending picture other block. for...
Women are widely assumed to be more talkative than men. Challenging this assumption, Mehl et al. (2007) provided empirical evidence that men and women do not differ significantly in their daily word use, speaking about 16,000 words per day (WPD) each. However, concerns were raised sample was too small yield generalizable estimates, age- context-homogeneous permit inferences beyond college students. This registered report replicated extended the previous study of binary gender differences use...
Verbal irony is when words intend the opposite of their literal meaning. We investigated emotional function by asking whether intensifies or mitigates negative feelings. Experiment 1 used ratings to assess mental state a speaker using language following event in either high- low-emotional context. found that regardless context emotionality, speakers were perceived as being less and aroused than language. In 2, we examined time course this process with ERPs. Initially, statements elicited...
Abstract This study examined whether the context of acquisition a word influences its visual recognition and subsequent processing. We utilized taboo words, whose meanings are typically acquired socially, to ensure that differences in processing were based on learned social taboo, rather than proficiency. American English-speaking participants made word/non-word decisions (native dialect), British (non-native positive, neutral, pseudo- words while EEG was recorded. Taboo verified as by both...
Introduction: Individuals’ construals of aging capture how they think aging, and what well means to them. Assessing such is important for understanding attitudes towards and, ultimately, tailor personalized interventions an individual.Methods: We analyzed 100 younger adults 92 older adults’ spoken narratives them using two language analysis approaches, closed vocabulary, word-count via Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC) open word-co-occurrence topic modelling. Results: Younger differed in...
Humans can mentally create and elaborately describe events, detailing not just the who, what, where, but also connections intricacies of these elements. Propositional density, number propositions expressed relative to total words, be leveraged assess how elements memories are described. The present study used propositional density investigate age relates elaborateness orally shared autobiographical event memories. This preregistered included 114 young adults (mean = 24.1) 171 cognitively...
Abstract Current methods to study aging lack a personalized approach in investigating the question of what it means age well - narrated, lived experience those doing aging. The current collected narratives from 92 individuals between ages 62 and 95. Participants were interviewed via Zoom Health provided four minutes spontaneous (i.e. unprepared) answers question, “In your own words, does mean you?”. responses recorded, transcribed using speech-to-text, deidentified, checked for accuracy by...
ABSTRACTMetaphors are pervasive in cancer discourse. However, little is known about how metaphor use develops over time within the same patient, and its content relate to mental health of patient. Here, we analyzed personal essays written by breast patients shortly after diagnosis nine months later, relation their depressive symptoms at both points. Results show that can provide important insight into a patient's current state. Specifically, who had no change symptom levels used metaphors...