Marijn E. Struiksma

Corrugator activity reflects integrated simulation and multifaceted evaluation when processing affective language: Frowning responses to reading about emotions of morally good and bad characters

Corrugator supercilii (“frowning muscle”) activity tracks affective valence of linguistic stimuli. According to embodied cognition accounts, this reflects simulation of the emotion at lexical and/or situational levels. Additionally, it may indicate evaluation, i.e., how we feel about an affective event within a context...