Sentences with phrase «from emotional stimuli»

Ortner et al. (2007) further showed that when meditation - naïve participants were assigned to mindfulness meditation, relaxation meditation training, or waitlist control, after 7 - week training, only the mindfulness meditation group showed a reduction in emotional interference, that is, they were quicker to disengage their attention from emotional stimuli.

The task assesses whether the child focuses his or her attention towards or away from emotional stimuli.

Not exact matches

The brain, Damasio says, learns from the body's response to external stimuli, but the brain is also a master simulator, capable of building mock versions of that emotional reaction.

The fear conditioning experiments, done with live rats, showed that individual neurons in the amygdala, the emotional hub of the brain, that were initially capable of telling apart safe from dangerous stimuli can start firing indiscriminately — causing the rat to become fearful of non-threatening stimuli.

This novel study is the first to separate emotion from threat by controlling for the dimension of arousal, the emotional reaction provoked, whether positive or negative, in response to stimuli.

Furthermore, disengaging from threatening stimuli also demonstrates an efficient and flexible ability to regulate negative emotional experiences.

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].

Emotional vulnerability was defined as high distress reactions to fear stimuli coinciding with limited efforts by the infants to look at or seek assistance or comfort from their mothers.

As crucial processes to extracting information from the environment, attention mechanisms are considered highly relevant to attachment - related differences in the processing of emotional stimuli, especially potentially threatening stimuli (Fraley et al., 2000).

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have provided evidence that individuals with conduct problems and high levels of CU traits (CD / CU +) process emotional stimuli differently from those with conduct problems and low levels of CU traits (CD / CU --RRB-.

Importantly, MBSR may be related to greater ability to disengage attention from aversive emotional stimuli (Lutz et al., 2008); thereby reducing emotional reactivity and enhancing the ability to implement emotion regulation strategies.