Sentences with phrase «emotional valence»

Finally, we compared the differential priming effects on processing facial expressions for both positive and negative emotional valence individually.

We performed a 2 × 2 × 2 repeated - measures ANOVA on the reaction times of evaluative responses, with the attachment style, priming type, and emotional valence as the factors.

The determination of relevance to self of verbal statements of differing emotional valence involved left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (left inferior frontal gyrus, BA 47), right caudate and right cingulate gyrus (BA 24).

The deactivation of the amygdala and hippocampus we observed may be attributable to the positive emotional valence associated with improvisation, consistent with studies that have reported these limbic structures to be less active during perception of music that is consonant [4] or elicits intense pleasure [2].

I don't mean conscious motivation, but a deeply embodied drive or push that has a powerful emotional valence, which then alters the memory.

Not exact matches

The way oxytocin affects people's sleep is said to be similar to the way it affects their relationships; current evidence from many scientific studies has concluded that oxytocin attenuates amygdalar hyper - responsivity to negatively valences emotional stimuli (Kirsch et al. 2005)[3].

Immediately before the examination began, the cotton pads were removed and the donors described their current emotional state on the dimensions valence (happy — sad), arousal (aroused — relaxed), and dominance (dominant — submissive), using the Self Assessment Manikin (SAM, [28]-RRB-.

Two trained raters judged the affective responsiveness of infants, comprising of how much they thought the infant was trying to interact with the speaker, how interested they appeared and the valence of the infant's emotional state.

They describe emotional empathy as «the capacity to share or become affectively aroused by others» emotional states at least in valence and intensity», and they describe cognitive empathy as «the ability to consciously put oneself into the mind of another person to understand what she is thinking or feeling».

The results showed that attachment secure priming interacted with attachment anxiety to affect the processing of emotional stimuli with both positive and negative valence.

Other studies have focused solely on emotional intensity (e.g., Schwenck et al. 2012) or congruence (asking the participant whether he / she felt the same emotion or a similar valence as the target, irrespective of what the emotion was; e.g., Anastassiou - Hadjicharalambous and Warden 2008), finding that the DBD groups reported less intense emotions than the controls.

First, symptoms of depression, such as dysphoria, apathy, and mood swings, could reduce the frequency, predictability, positive valence, and quality of mother - child interactions, thereby reducing support for the child's social - emotional development.