Emotionally positive stimuli facilitate lexical decisions-An ERP study

▶ Positive stimuli facilitate lexical decisions. ▶ No affective priming in a picture-word lexical decision task. ▶ Facilitation for positive pictures is reflected in attention-related ERPs. ▶ Response facilitation for positive words is revealed in very early pre-response ERPs. ▶ Early response facilitation for positive words may by-pass semantic analysis.