Table_1_Mood effects on semantic processes: Behavioural and electrophysiological evidence.XLSX

Mood (i.e., our current background affective state) often unobtrusively yet pervasively affects how we think and behave. Typically, theoretical frameworks position it as an embodied source of information (i.e., a biomarker), activating thinking patterns that tune our attention, perception, motivation, and exploration tendencies in a context-dependent manner. Growing behavioural and electrophysiological research has been exploring the mood–language interactions, employing numerous semantics-oriented experimental paradigms (e.g., manipulating semantic associations, congruity, relatedness, etc.) along with mood elicitation techniques (e.g., affectively evocative film clips, music, pictures, etc.). Available behavioural and electrophysiological evidence has suggested that positive and negative moods differently regulate the dynamics of language comprehension, mostly due to the activation of mood-dependent cognitive strategies. Namely, a positive mood has been argued to activate global and heuristics-based processing and a negative mood – local and detail-oriented processing during language comprehension. Future research on mood–language interactions could benefit greatly from (i) a theoretical framework for mood effects on semantic memory, (ii) measuring mood changes multi-dimensionally, (iii) addressing discrepancies in empirical findings, (iv) a replication-oriented approach, and (v) research practices counteracting publication biases.情绪（mood），即我们当下的背景性情感状态，往往以悄然却广泛渗透的方式影响着我们的思维与行为。通常而言，理论框架将情绪视为具身信息源（embodied source of information，即生物标志物（biomarker）），它会激活特定思维模式，以情境依赖的方式调节我们的注意力、感知、动机与探索倾向。越来越多的行为学与电生理学研究正围绕情绪-语言交互展开，此类研究采用了诸多面向语义的实验范式（例如操纵语义联想、语义一致性、语义关联性等），并搭配了情绪诱发技术（例如情感唤醒型电影片段、音乐、图片等）。现有行为学与电生理学证据表明，积极与消极情绪会以差异化方式调节语言理解的动态进程，这主要源于情绪依赖型认知策略的激活。具体而言，学界普遍认为，积极情绪会在语言理解过程中激活全局化与基于启发式的加工模式，而消极情绪则会激活局部化且聚焦细节的加工模式。未来关于情绪-语言交互的研究可从以下五个方向获得显著推进：（1）构建情绪对语义记忆（semantic memory）影响的理论框架；（2）实现情绪变化的多维度测量；（3）解决实证研究结果间的不一致性问题；（4）采用以重复验证为导向的研究方法；（5）推行能够抵消发表偏倚（publication biases）的研究实践。