Discussion

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Our study provides emotional valence norms for 1915 Spanish words, which increases the amount of words with scores on this variable. The most relevant question that addressed our research was the fact that little or none studies have used Latin-American participants, which is an aggregate value for our study. This is important in the sense that differences may exist between Spaniard and Latin-American conceptual processing of some words due to differences in cultural background, which represent at the same time that some concepts may have different meanings. One way to see this possible confounding is by observe some special cases occurring with the Spanish association norms (Fernandez, Diez, Alonso, & Beato, 2004) where, for example, for the word “BUS”, the strongest associated word for Spaniard participants was “GUAGUA” but for Colombians this word is hardly used and if so, it implies another conceptual management. The correlation analysis went in the same direction as it showed that despite the fact that it resulted highly correlated, there seems to exist a subtle difference between some concepts. It is true though that these two variables were not exactly the same as it has been well stablished that agradability do not reflect intrinsic attributes to the word but a personal point of view about the physical experience of the emotion activated by the word.
Another step ahead for our study regarding to the available normative studies was the use of an informatics tool both for presenting and analysing the data. Generally normative studies have been performed using a paper-pencil strategy, which is more time demanding. By using the informatics approach researchers will be able to address more goals in the same experimental sections and thus they will be able to provide more controlled words to be used by cognitive researchers.
Currently, our lab is carrying out a series of studies that are intent to address the question related to the impact of emotional valence on recognition memory. As it was mentioned on the introduction of this work, some researchers are interested in unravelling the relationships between the cognitive and affective systems. For those researchers, this study will represent a tool to be based on.
Finally, Affective system and its relationship with cognition is a fruitful field for cognitive psychologist as it represents XXX. There is not a good amount of researches in Latin America where emotion and cognition have been implied. It is also true that there seems to be an interest in starting new lines of research here in Latin-America so that we can use the especial Latin-American context to address some research questions. Is that the reason why our study can be suited to be used by the researchers and thus XXX
Author notes
This study was funding by the research proyect….
A.M. González was recipient of a fellowship from the above mentioned project
We want to thank XXXX for their invaluable participation and help thorough the recollection data.