When Feelings Arise with Meanings: How Emotion and Meaning of a Native Language Affect Second Language Processing in Adult Learners

Agnes Sianipar; Renée Middelburg; Ton Dijkstra

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144576

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When Feelings Arise with Meanings: How Emotion and Meaning of a Native Language Affect Second Language Processing in Adult Learners

Agnes Sianipar ,

* E-mail: a.wulandari@donders.ru.nl

Affiliations Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognition, Montessorilaan 3, 6525 HR, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Jawa Barat, Indonesia
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Renée Middelburg,

Affiliation Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognition, Montessorilaan 3, 6525 HR, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Ton Dijkstra

Affiliation Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognition, Montessorilaan 3, 6525 HR, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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When Feelings Arise with Meanings: How Emotion and Meaning of a Native Language Affect Second Language Processing in Adult Learners

Agnes Sianipar,
Renée Middelburg,
Ton Dijkstra

Published: December 10, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144576

About the Authors

Agnes Sianipar

* E-mail: a.wulandari@donders.ru.nl

Affiliations Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognition, Montessorilaan 3, 6525 HR, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Jawa Barat, Indonesia

Renée Middelburg

Affiliation Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognition, Montessorilaan 3, 6525 HR, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Ton Dijkstra

Affiliation Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognition, Montessorilaan 3, 6525 HR, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS TD. Performed the experiments: AS RM. Analyzed the data: AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS. Wrote the paper: AS TD.

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