For neutral words, differences were between weakly significant stimuli and both moderately and highly significant ones; and for positive stimuli, there was only a difference between low and high significance.
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The role of subjective significance, valence and arousal in the explicit processing of emotion-laden words.
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It also shapes both implicit and explicit processing of emotion-laden words’ meaning—in studies including EEG measurement, highly significant words resulted in less negative amplitudes in the FN400 component ( Imbir et al., 2018a , 2020b ).