Sentences with phrase «of emotional stimuli»

Modality - specific alterations in the perception of emotional stimuli in bipolar disorder compared to healthy controls and major depressive disorder

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

Therefore, the purpose of our study was to examine the priming effects of secure base schema on the processing of emotional stimuli while exploring the interaction of this priming with attachment orientations, and the underlying neural mechanisms.

However, despite inconsistencies, these findings suggest that attachment anxiety affects attentional processing of emotional stimuli.

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).

Psychopathy, aggression, and the processing of emotional stimuli in non-referred girls and boys.

Results indicated MBCT - C was associated with increases in activation of the bilateral insula, lentiform nucleus, and thalamus, as well as the left anterior cingulate while viewing emotional stimuli during the continuous processing task with emotional and neutral distractors (CPT - END), and decreases in anxiety were correlated with change in activation in the bilateral insula and anterior cingulate during the viewing of emotional stimuli.

Not exact matches

Social media and messaging fool the limbic system — the part of the brain responsible for survival and response to emotional stimuli — into rewarding us every time we connect with others online.

One way to get suggestive evidence of such long - lasting occasions is to look for delayed emotional or physiological reactions to stimuli — reactions which come long after the initial conscious reaction.

In the more emotional types of Protestant service both the external stimuli and the inner warmth which the worshiper expects — and goes to church to secure — are conducive to attention.

J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.

To be sure, under the great emotional stimulus of the camp meeting one might be able to break through the past and to decide for God.

Finally, we should keep in mind that everybody tends to overreact to emotional stimuli at the end of the day.

Negative environmental stimuli that causes emotional disturbance can disrupt the production of these hormones.

Therapists who stress the importance of crawling talk about how it promotes socio - emotional and muscular development, how it encourages independence, how it exposes infants to challenging new stimuli — all of which is crucial.

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.

«In light of the current findings, it is certainly plausible that individuals displaying decreased pupillary response to emotional stimuli and relatively higher levels of disaster - related stress may be good candidates for cognitive therapy to alleviate their depression,» said Brandon Gibb, professor of psychology at Binghamton University, director of the Mood Disorders Institute and Center for Affective Science, and co-author of the study.

Repeated exposure to the stimulus should also produce a greater emotional response — a primitive called scalability; for example, the sound of 10 gunshots would make you more afraid than the sound of one shot.

«What remains to be seen is whether emotional stimuli impact objective measures of temporal processing,» says Roberts.

Roberts and colleagues hypothesized that the emotional content of stimuli or experiences could impact the speed of our internal pacemaker.

Study in rats suggests long - term, moderate consumption of alcohol improves recall of both visual and emotional stimuli

The researchers scanned the entire brain and discovered that memories of alcohol consumption — often prompted by external stimuli — caused activation of this protein in specific regions of the frontal cortex, the area of the brain related to memory processing, as well as in the nucleus of the amygdala, which is responsible for emotional memories and involved in the emotional symptoms related to withdrawal.

The fMRI results (event - related design) show that chemosensory anxiety signals activate brain areas involved in the processing of social emotional stimuli (fusiform gyrus), and in the regulation of empathic feelings (insula, precuneus, cingulate cortex).

Among other telltale signs, HSPs exhibit a high measure of sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), which is a personality trait that has been described as having hypersensitivity to external stimuli, high emotional reactivity, and greater depth of cognitive processing.

Because of hormonal fluctuations during this part of your cycle, you have a heightened sensitivity to external stimuli which leads to irritation, bad moods and all the other emotional «stuff» that comes up.

In regards to emotional support and anxiety - reduction, there are a number of standouts that work incredibly effectively by nourishing the nervous and endocrine systems, thereby regulating our physiological reaction to life stressors and stimuli.

For example, thoughts return to the break - up, you experience feelings of loss and have emotional responses to stimuli associated with the relationship, which can include flashbacks.»

This is a very simple sheet for recording children's mood, feelings and emotional responses to a variety of stimuli.

The representational associations of verbal stimuli take the form of words, facts, concepts, ideas, and the like, while the representational associations of nonverbal stimuli are such things as visual and auditory images, emotional sensations, and the «feeling» of touching objects.

The teens who receive our counseling services gain insight into how their life experiences drive their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; learn to regulate their responses to emotional stimuli; become more empowered to speak up and advocate for themselves appropriately; develop increased trust and the ability to choose healthier relationships; improve their school engagement; find compassion for themselves and each other; and experience renewed hope and a glimpse of a future with new possibilities.

If a child develops a feeling of intense anger in response to a stimulus, that anger may represent an emotional memory of an earlier experience stored in the OFC.

For many young people who exhibit emotional disabilities — such as those on the autism spectrum — these expectations are not merely difficult to master; oftentimes, such a behavioral paragon falls outside the non-normative behavior practices that are important components of the way a child with special needs communicates with and responds to surrounding people and stimuli (Picciuto 2016).

By pairing the umbrella with a positive stimulus, such as a piece of sausage, the emotional response gradually begins to change.

This part of the brain acts as a brake or filter on impulsive, emotional responses to stimuli.

The British Veterinary Association and the British Small Animal Veterinary Association both recommend «against the use of electronic shock collars and other aversive methods for the training and containment of animals» and state that shocks «and other aversive stimuli received during training may not only be acutely stressful, painful and frightening for the animals, but may also produce long - term adverse effects on behavioural and emotional responses.»

«Woven through Timothy J. Clark's paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli....

The gateway into Pipilotti Rist's work is our emotional side, the part of us that reacts involuntarily to external stimuli.

Lecture - The Neurobiology of Love by Semir Zeki Sun 13 Sept, 2 — 3 pm Semir Zeki, (Professor of Neuroesthetics at the University College London) discusses his pioneering research on the organisation of the visual brain and his experimental enquiries into how a visual stimulus triggers an affective, emotional state, similar to our experience of beauty, desire and love.

Zombies respond to stimulus, they experience hunger, they are capable of some basic emotional responses: rage, surprise, and boredom.

Here, the emotional responses of 23 BD participants were compared with that of 24 healthy controls after various stimuli; the study found greater HRV in the BD group after the stimuli through an increase in measures related to parasympathetic activity.16 More recently, in 2015, Voggt et al investigated HRV features in 90 euthymic bipolar patients compared with 62 healthy controls.

Abstract: While it has long been known that emotional factors can influence the experience of pain, imaging studies analyzing the neuronal basis of this effect particularly for visceral stimuli remain scarce.

Citing research, Schore asserts «the right hemisphere is dominant for the perception of nonverbal emotional expressions embedded in facial and prosodic stimuli, even at unconscious levels, for nonverbal communication, and for implicit learning,» and that «emotional face - to - face communications occur on an unconscious level.»

For example, damage to the frontal lobes can affect emotional responses to social stimuli [20][21][22] and performance on theory of mind tasks.

However, the difference in brain activity during processing of both, positive and negative emotional facial stimuli between the two priming conditions appeared in the attachment anxiety group alone.

This temperamental profile can act aggressively, in an emotionally dysregulated manner, within the context of these strong emotions, without thinking to the potential consequences of these acts, given the hypervigilant style of responding to emotional stimuli.

Several investigations found that conduct problems coupled with low levels of CU traits are associated with increased amygdala reactivity to fearful and angry facial expressions (Viding et al., 2012; Hyde et al., 2013; Blair et al., 2014; Sebastian et al., 2014), while those coupled with high levels of CU traits are correlated with decreased amygdala reactivity to emotional stimuli, particularly fearful facial expressions (Odgers et al., 2008; Jones et al., 2009).

As for ODD, studies have shown, as early as preschool age, that, compared to children with low levels of CU traits and ODD, those with higher levels of CU traits have more severe ODD problems, showing deficits in processing emotional stimuli, such as fearful faces, having lower levels of fearfulness and anxiety, manifesting insensitivity to punishment and displaying physiological hypoarousal, such as low stress reaction — lower heart rate at rest and during reactivity to emotional stimuli (Fanti, 2016).

Relative to healthy controls, MDD youth displayed a potentiated response to peer rejection in a ventral network of brain regions involved in the identification of emotional and social stimuli and the generation of affective states (Phillips et al., 2003), including the sgACC, anterior insula, amygdala and NAcc.