Fig. 3.

Generalization of the positive and negative disambiguation of pictures to new ambiguous pictures. Cueing did substantially modulate positive interpretation of new ambiguous pictures in dependence of the learnt valence of the corresponding picture at encoding (interaction ‘cueing’ × ‘valence at encoding’ is indicated, cued interpretations: black bars; un-cued interpretations: white bars). In both age-groups, cued as compared to un-cued positively disambiguated pictures led to more positive interpretation of new ambiguous pictures as indicated by a higher fit of positive new words to the picture whereas cueing negatively disambiguated pictures led to a lower fit of positive new words to new ambiguous pictures. Word-picture fit is indicated on a 9-point scale (1 = very low fit and 9 = perfect fit). ***p ≤ 0.001.