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Presentations from the Past Decade

Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2021, November). Emotional intensity increases information believability. Paper presented at the 62nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. (Virtual conference). Link to PDF

Avery, M. C., Spencer, M. T., & Altarriba, J. (2021, November). Is happiness facilitated in discrete emotion word processing? Poster presented at the 62nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. (Virtual conference). Link to PDF

Eady, A., Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2021, April). What’s that? The influence of emotional audio on memory. Poster presented at the 93rd annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. (Virtual conference). Link to PDF

Spencer, M., Avery, M. C., & Altarriba, J. (2021, April). Sex differences in emotion word processing. Poster presented at the 93rd annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. (Virtual conference). Link to PDF

Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2020, November) Do familiar sounds aid language learning? Support for exemplar-based memory models for spoken language processing. Poster accepted for presentation at the 61st annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Austin, TX. Link to PDF

Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2019, November). I’m happy to remember your name: The influence of emotion and focus on face-name recall. Poster presented at the 60th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Link to PDF

Bak, H., & Altarriba, J. (2018, November). (In)visible dimensions: Implicit affect and basic emotion categorizations of emotion terms. Poster presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. Link to PDF
Basnight-Brown, D. M., Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2018, November). Explorations of adaptive/survival memory in Sub-Saharan Africa. Poster presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. Link to PDF
Martin, J. M., Wilck, A. M., Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2018, November). Would you like a snack? Priming for food-related behaviors. Poster presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. Link to PDF
Wilck, A. M., Martin, J. M., & Altarriba, J. (2018, November). Why don’t we learn what we DO know? Metacognition and the perceptual interference effect. Poster presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. Link to PDF
Altarriba, J. (2018, April). Survival, death, and the supernatural. Paper presented at the Evolutionary Perspectives on Death Conference, Oakland University, Rochester, MI. Link to PDF
Altarriba, J. (2018, April). Emotion and memory in the bilingual and monolingual mind. Paper presented at the 90th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Link to PDF
Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2018, April). The survival advantage, but only when you’re trying. Poster presented at the 90th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Link to PDF
Basnight-Brown, D. M., Tse, C.-S., & Altarriba, J. (2017, November). The relationship between language proficiency and attentional control: Evidence from a highly proficient multilingual Sub-Saharan African population. Poster presented at the 58th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Link to PDF
Kazanas, S. A., Altarriba, J., & O'Brien, E. (2017, November). How survival processing provides an effective mnemonic for second-language acquisition. Poster presented at the 58th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Link to PDF
Kazanas, S. A., Wilck, A. M., Altarriba, J. (2017, November). Me versus we: Examining the role of culture in the survival advantage. Poster presented at the 58th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Link to PDF
Martin, J. M., & Altarriba, J. (2017, November). How do individuals with varying previous experience approach learning new languages? Poster presented at the 58th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Link to PDF
Altarriba, J. (2017, June). Valence and word type effects in the processing of emotional stimuli in bilingual speakers. Paper presented at the Eleventh International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11), University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. Link to PDF
Altarriba, J., Kazanas, S. A., & O'Brien, E. (2017, April). That BEAR is OSO ferocious! Animacy and second-language acquisition in the survival memory paradigm. Paper presented at the 88th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Link to PDF
Altarriba, J. (2017, March). Emotion, mind, and cognition: A framework for understanding emotion word processing. In S. A. Kazanas (Organizer), Emotion effects in language, memory, and cognition. Symposium conducted at the 109th annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Savannah, GA.
Diliberto-Macaluso, K. A., Kazanas, S. A., Altarriba, J., O’Brien, E., Rivera, E., & Smith, J. (2016, November). Emotion and emotion-laden words differ on both hits and false alarms: Insights from the DRM paradigm. Poster presented at the 57th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA. Link to PDF
Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2016, November). Emotional face-name pair learning is facilitated by repeated testing and highly arousing contexts. Poster presented at the 57th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA. Link to PDF
Knickerbocker, H. F., Johnson, R. L., Starr, E. L., Hall, A. M., Preti, D. M., Slate, S. R., & Altarriba, J. (2016, November). The processing of positive and negative emotion-laden words during reading: An eye-tracking study. Poster presented at the 57th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA. Link to PDF
Martin, J. M., & Altarriba, J. (2016, November). Inaccuracies of metamemory in the perceptual interference effect. Poster presented at the 57th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA. Link to PDF
Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2016, October). The survival processing effect and explicit versus implicit memory. Paper presented at the 55th annual meeting of the New England Psychological Association, Assumption College, Worcester, MA.
Cho, K. W., Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2016, May). Dissociating recollection from familiarity in the survival processing memory effect. Poster presented at the 28th annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL. Link to PDF
Martin, J. M., & Altarriba, J. (2016, May). Hemispheric specialization for emotion words in bilinguals: Effects of valence and first language. Poster presented at the 2nd International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Granada, Spain. Link to PDF
Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2015, November). Survival processing increases Stroop interference: When poor performance has adaptive value. Poster presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL. Link to PDF
Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2015, November). Will you remember my face? Valence and arousal in memory for facial identity. Poster presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL. Link to PDF
Knickerbocker, H. F., Boucher, J., & Altarriba, J. (2015, November). Positive proactive interference: Happy versus marriage. Poster presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL. Link to PDF
Martin, J. M., & Altarriba, J. (2015, November). Neutral and emotion-laden word types in the attentional blink paradigm. Poster presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL. Link to PDF
Kazanas, S. A., Altarriba, J., & Mann-Saumier, M. (2015, May). Word type effects and language dominance in the switch cost paradigm. Paper presented at the Tenth International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB10), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Martin, J. M., & Altarriba, J. (2015, May). Predicting a language dominance switch in bilinguals using discrimination analysis. Poster presented at the Tenth International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB10), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Link to PDF
Bak, H., & Altarriba, J. (2015, April). Keeping an ear out for negativity--L2 emotion recognition bias for emotional prosody. Paper presented at the 24th International Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE). Department of English Studies, University of Wroclaw and the Polish Association for the Study of English, Wroclaw, Poland.
Cho, K. W., Altarriba, J., & Popiel, M. (2014, November). Mental juggling: When does task-switching affect reading comprehension? Poster presented at the 55th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA. Link to PDF

Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2014, November). Switch costs conditionalized on word type: Examining the representation of concrete, abstract, and emotion words. Poster presented at the 55th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA. Link to PDF
Martin, J. M., & Altarriba, J. (2014, November). Is emotion word processing lateralized? Findings from a hemifield lexical decision task using emotion and emotion laden words. Poster presented at the 55th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA. Link to PDF

Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2014, October). Implicit emotion word processing: Priming effects with Spanish-English bilinguals. Paper presented at the 54th annual meeting of the New England Psychological Assocation, Bates College, Lewiston, ME.
Knickerbocker, H. F., & Altarriba, J. (2014, October). Proactive interference with emotion and emotion-laden words. Paper presented at the 54th annual meeting of the New England Psychological Association, Bates College, Lewiston, ME.

Basnight-Brown, D. M., Altarriba, J., & Kazanas, S. A. (2014, May). The role of emotion in translation processes: Results from Chinese-English bilinguals. Paper presented at the 85th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Martin, J. M., Altarriba, J., & Pagano, M. J. (2013, November). Spanish-English bilingual word norms with new examination of comprehensive cognate measures. Poster presented at the 54th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Link to PDF
Knickerbocker, H., & Altarriba, J. (2013, November). Release from proactive interference with emotional and neutral semantic shifts. Poster presented at the 54th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Link to PDF
Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2013, November). Predators v. demons v. clowns: When fear of the supernatural improves recall in a survival scenario. Poster presented at the 54th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Link to PDF
Basnight-Brown, D. M., Altarriba, J., & Kazanas, S. A. (2013, June). Translation differences across concrete, abstract, and emotion words: A study of Chinese-English bilinguals. Poster presented at the Ninth International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB9), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Li, Y., & Altarriba, J. (2012, November). The influence of valence and arousal of emotional pictures on attentional processes. Poster presented at the 53rd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.
Tse, C.-S., & Altarriba, J. (2011, November). Searching for a bilingual advantage in the tail of reaction time distribution in the Stroop switching task. Poster presented at the 52nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA.
Basnight-Brown, D. M., & Altarriba, J. (2011, June). Translation ambiguity moderates the processing of concrete, abstract, and emotion words. Paper presented at the Eighth International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB8), University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Van Dam, N. T., Earleywine, M., & Altarriba, J. (2010, April). Emotional contrast and self-reported anxiety predict target accuracy in an emotional attentional blink paradigm. Poster presented at the 17th annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Knickerbocker, H., & Altarriba, J. (2010, April). Repetition blindness with emotion, emotion laden, and neutral words. Paper presented at the 82nd annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Leblebici-Basar, D., & Altarriba, J. (2010, February). Translating concrete, abstract, and emotional concepts into product form: Insight into the design process. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL.
Altarriba, J. (2009, November). The role of linguistic and emotional factors in working with bilingual, clinical populations. Paper presented at the 2nd International Clinical Linguistics Conference, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
Altarriba, J., & Basnight-Brown, D. M. (2009, July). Are emotion words represented differently than emotion-laden words? Evidence from an Affective Simon Task. Paper presented at the Seventh International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB7), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

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