Publications by authors named "S Mathey"
Article Synopsis
- Imageability, which gauges how easily a word can trigger a mental image, shows significant variability in ratings among different age groups (young, middle-aged, and older adults), raising questions about the reliability of these average ratings.
- Factors contributing to this variability include word length, frequency, emotional content, and the age at which the word is learned, which indicates that younger and older adults may perceive words differently.
- Despite inter-rater disagreements, the study found that imageability still significantly influenced visual word recognition in young adults, suggesting it can predict performance well, but emphasizes caution when dealing with smaller datasets.
Recent studies suggest that instrumental hypnosis is a useful experimental tool to investigate emotional and language processing effects. However, the capacity of hypnotic suggestions to intervene during the response inhibition of emotional words remains elusive. This study investigated whether hypnotic suggestion can improve the inhibition of prepotent negative word responses in an emotional Hayling sentence completion task.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study presents the norms and psychometric properties for a shortened online adaptation of a French version of the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A (HGSHS:A). Assessment of involuntariness and subjective intensity was added to the traditional scoring. A total of 373 individuals completed an online hypnotizability screening test on their own computer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo experiments were designed to investigate the relationship between individual lexical skills in young adults and memory performance on words varying by their orthographic neighborhood size. In Experiment 1, a sample of 100 university students were administrated a set of spelling, reading, and vocabulary tests to assess their lexical skills. Then, they had to learn mixed lists of words from high and low neighborhood size and perform free recall and memory recognition tasks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study examined whether and how emotional hypnotic suggestions modulate the visual recognition of negative words. We investigated the influence of hypnotic suggestions aimed at modifying emotional reactivity on the arousal effect in negative words. High and low suggestible individuals performed a go/no-go lexical decision task in three intra-individual conditions: with a suggestion to increase emotional reactivity, with a suggestion to decrease emotional reactivity and without hypnotic suggestion.
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