35390
2013
2013
eng
28
34
7
1
87
article
Elsevier
Amsterdam
1
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--
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Syntactic structural parallelisms influence processing of positive stimuli evidence from cross-modal ERP priming
Language can strongly influence the emotional state of the recipient. In contrast to the broad body of experimental and neuroscientific research on semantic information and prosodic speech, the emotional impact of grammatical structure has rarely been investigated. One reason for this might be, that measuring effects of syntactic structure involves the use of complex stimuli, for which the emotional impact of grammar is difficult to isolate. In the present experiment we examined the emotional impact of structural parallelisms, that is, repetitions of syntactic features, on the emotion-sensitive "late positive potential" (LPP) with a cross-modal priming paradigm. Primes were auditory presented nonsense sentences which included grammatical-syntactic parallelisms. Visual targets were positive, neutral, and negative faces, to be classified as emotional or non-emotional by the participants. Electrophysiology revealed diminished LPP amplitudes for positive faces following parallel primes. Thus, our findings suggest that grammatical structure creates an emotional context that facilitates processing of positive emotional information.
International journal of psychophysiology
10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.10.014
0167-8760
1872-7697
wos:2011-2013
WOS:000315179000005
Czerwon, B (reprint author), Humboldt Univ, Dept Psychol, Rudower Chaussee 18, D-12489 Berlin, Germany., beate.czerwon@hu-berlin.de
Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion" at Freie Universitat
Berlin; German Excellence Initiative; Sonnenfeld-Stiftung
Beate Czerwon
Annette Hohlfeld
Heike Wiese
Katja Werheid
eng
uncontrolled
Language
eng
uncontrolled
Emotion
eng
uncontrolled
Priming
eng
uncontrolled
ERP
eng
uncontrolled
Late positive potential
eng
uncontrolled
Structural parallelisms
Institut für Germanistik
Referiert
38403
2015
2015
eng
635
639
5
6
79
article
Elsevier
Oxford
1
--
--
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Reduced facial emotion recognition in overweight and obese children
Objective: Emotional problems often co-occur in overweight or obese children. However, questions of whether emotion recognition deficits are present and how they are reflected have only been sparsely investigated to date.
Methods: Therefore, the present study included 33 overweight and obese as well as 33 normal weight elementary school children between six and ten years that were matched for sex, age and socioeconomic status. Participants were shown different emotional faces of a well-validated set of stimuli on a computer screen, which they categorized and then rated on an emotional intensity level. Key measures were categorization performance along with reaction times and emotional intelligence as well as emotional eating questionnaire ratings.
Results: Overweight children exhibited lower categorization accuracy as well as longer reaction times as compared to normal weight children, while no differences in intensity ratings occurred. Reaction time to neutral facial expressions was negatively related to intrapersonal and interpersonal emotional intelligence and emotional eating correlated negatively with accuracy for recognizing sad expressions.
Conclusion: Facial emotion decoding difficulties seem to be of importance in overweight and obese children and deserve further consideration in terms of their exact impact on social functioning as well as on the maintenance of elevated body weight during child development. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc All rights reserved.
Journal of psychosomatic research
10.1016/j.jpsychores.2015.06.005
0022-3999
1879-1360
wos:2015
WOS:000366439000024
Koch, A (reprint author), Univ Potsdam, Fac Human Sci, Dept Psychol, Karl Liebknecht Str 24-25, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany., annekoch@mail.de; olga.pollatos@uni-ulm.de
German Research Foundation (DFG) [1668/1]
Anne Koch
Olga Pollatos
eng
uncontrolled
Childhood obesity
eng
uncontrolled
Emotion
eng
uncontrolled
Emotional expressions
eng
uncontrolled
Face categorization
eng
uncontrolled
Overweight
Referiert
Department Psychologie
Institut für Psychologie
57452
2020
2020
eng
S39
S39
1
57
article
Wiley-Blackwell
Malden
1
--
--
--
Influence of resting heart rate variability on affect processing in different induction contexts
Psychophysiology : journal of the Society for Psychophysiological Research
0048-5772
1469-8986
1540-5958
wos:2020
Virtual Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Psychophysiological-Research<br /> (SPR)
OCT 04-11, 2020
WOS:000578448200144
ELECTR NETWORK
2023-01-11T09:56:14+00:00
sword
importub
filename=package.tar
73b31bcd98163940261a9706b2ca681d
1484299-3
209486-1
false
true
Carlos Ventura-Bort
Ella Schnabel
Julia Wendt
Mathias Weymar
eng
uncontrolled
HRV
eng
uncontrolled
Emotion
eng
uncontrolled
Startle
Psychologie
Referiert
Department Psychologie
Import
47942
2019
2019
eng
7
148
article
Elsevier
Amsterdam
1
--
2019-08-20
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Enhanced spontaneous retrieval of cues from emotional events: an ERP study
Recent evidence points to enhanced episodic memory retrieval not only for emotional items but also for neutral information encoded in emotional contexts. However, prior research only tested instructed explicit recognition, and hence here we investigated whether memory retrieval is also heightened for cues from emotional contexts when retrieval is not explicitly probed. During the first session of a two-session experiment, neutral objects were presented on different background scenes varying in emotional and neutral contents. One week later, objects were presented again (with no background) intermixed with novel objects. In both sessions, participants were instructed to attentively watch the stimuli (free viewing procedure), and during the second session, ERPs were also collected to measure the ERP Old/New effect, an electrophysiological correlate of episodic memory retrieval. Analyses were performed using cluster-based permutation tests in order to identify reliable spatiotemporal ERP differences. Based on this approach, old relative to new objects, were associated with larger ERP positivity in an early (364-744 ms) and late time window (760-1148 ms) over distinct central electrode clusters. Interestingly, significant late ERP Old/New differences were only observed for objects previously encoded with emotional, but not neutral scenes (504 to 1144 ms). Because these ERP differences were observed in a non-instructed retrieval context, our results indicate that long-term, spontaneous retrieval for neutral objects, is particularly heightened if encoded within emotionally salient contextual information. These findings may assist in understanding mechanisms underlying spontaneous retrieval of emotional associates and the utility of ERPs to study maladaptive involuntary memories in trauma- and stress-related disorders.
Biological psychology
10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.107742
31442479
0301-0511
1873-6246
wos:2019
107742
WOS:000496756800008
Ventura-Bort, C; Weymar, M (reprint author), Univ Potsdam, Dept Psychol, Karl Liebknecht Str 24-25, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany., ventura@uni-potsdam.de; mathias.weymar@uni-potsdam.de
German Research Foundation (DFG)German Research Foundation (DFG) [WE 4801/3-1]
importub
2020-10-20T09:13:05+00:00
filename=package.tar
fdc57686a349aafb9665d0f06f61d845
false
true
Carlos Ventura-Bort
Janine Wirkner
Florin Dolcos
Julia Wendt
Alfons O. Hamm
Mathias Weymar
eng
uncontrolled
Event-related potentials
eng
uncontrolled
ERP
eng
uncontrolled
Emotion
eng
uncontrolled
Retrieval
eng
uncontrolled
Spontaneous memory
eng
uncontrolled
Old/New effect
Psychologie
Referiert
Department Psychologie
Import
52973
2018
2018
eng
60
70
11
51
article
Elsevier
New York
1
2018-04-19
2018-04-19
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Differential effects of others' emotional cues on 18-month-olds' preferential reproduction of observed actions
Infants use others' emotional signals to regulate their own object-directed behavior and action reproduction, and they typically produce more actions after having observed positive as compared to negative emotional cues. This study explored infants' understanding of the referential specificity of others' emotional cues when being confronted with two actions that are accompanied by different emotional displays. Selective action reproduction was measured after 18-month-olds (N = 42) had observed two actions directed at the same object, one of which was modeled with a positive emotional expression and the other with a negative emotional expression. Across four trials with different objects, infants' first actions matched the positively-emoted actions more often than the negatively-emoted actions. In comparison with baseline-level, infants' initial performance changed only for the positively-emoted actions, in that it increased during test. Latencies to first object-touch during test did not differ when infants reproduced the positively- or negatively-emoted actions, respectively, indicating that infants related the cues to the respective actions rather than to the object. During demonstration, infants looked relatively longer at the object than at the model's face, with no difference in positive or negative displays. Infants during their second year of life thus capture the action-related referential specificity of others' emotional cues and seem to follow positive signals more readily when actively selecting which of two actions to reproduce preferentially.
Infant behavior & development : an international and interdisciplinary journal
10.1016/j.infbeh.2018.04.002
29679813
0163-6383
1879-0453
wos:2018
WOS:000432506400007
Patzwald, C (reprint author), Univ Potsdam, Dept Psychol, Karl Liebknecht Str 24-25, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany., christiane.patzwald@uni-potsdam.de
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) [57134481]; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
2021-12-06T14:59:03+00:00
sword
importub
filename=package.tar
fc00f9142b1341bdf025213cab20f148
false
true
Christiane Patzwald
Charlotte A. Curley
Petra Hauf
Birgit Elsner
eng
uncontrolled
Emotion
eng
uncontrolled
Action
eng
uncontrolled
Infancy
eng
uncontrolled
Social cues
eng
uncontrolled
Social learning
Psychologie
Referiert
Department Psychologie
Import
48299
2019
2019
eng
93
97
5
107
article
Elsevier
Oxford
1
--
--
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Chronic stress and emotion: Differential effects on attentional processing and recognition memory
Previous research indicates that acute stress around the time of learning facilitates attention and memory for emotionally salient information. Despite accumulating evidence for these acute stress effects, less is known about the role of chronic stress. In the present study, we therefore tested emotional and neutral scene processing and later recognition memory in female participants using hair cortisol concentrations as a biological marker for chronic stress. Event-related potentials recorded during picture viewing indicated enhanced late positive potentials (LPPs) for emotional, relative to neutral contents. These brain potentials varied as a function of long-term hair cortisol levels: hair-cortisol levels were positively related to overall LPP amplitudes. Results from recognition memory testing one week after encoding revealed better memory for emotional relative to neutral scenes. Hair-cortisol levels, however, were related to poorer memory accuracy. Taken together, our results indicate that chronic stress enhanced attentional processing during encoding of new stimuli and impaired later recognition memory. Results are discussed with regard to putatively opposite effects of chronic stress on certain brain regions (e.g., amygdala and hippocampus).
Psychoneuroendocrinology
10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.05.008
31121343
0306-4530
wos:2019
WOS:000483412100009
Wirkner, J (reprint author), Ernst Moritz Arndt Univ Greifswald, Inst Psychol, Dept Biol & Clin Psychol Psychotherapy, Franz Mehring Str 47, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany., janine.wirkner@uni-greifswald.de
German Research Foundation (DFG)German Research Foundation (DFG) [WE 4801/3-1]
importub
2020-11-17T16:32:16+00:00
filename=package.tar
59ef65765ffe00498dd82a45cea228d0
false
true
Janine Wirkner
Carlos Ventura-Bort
Lars Schwabe
Alfons O. Hamm
Mathias Weymar
eng
uncontrolled
Chronic stress
eng
uncontrolled
Emotion
eng
uncontrolled
Event-related potential
eng
uncontrolled
Late positive potential
eng
uncontrolled
Memory
eng
uncontrolled
Hair cortisol
Psychologie
Referiert
Department Psychologie
Import
54938
2017
2017
eng
96
102
7
326
article
Elsevier
Amsterdam
1
2017-03-04
2017-03-04
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A direct comparison of appetitive and aversive anticipation
fMRI studies of reward find increased neural activity in ventral striatum and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), whereas other regions, including the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (d1PFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and anterior insula, are activated when anticipating aversive exposure. Although these data suggest differential activation during anticipation of pleasant or of unpleasant exposure, they also arise in the context of different paradigms (e.g., preparation for reward vs. threat of shock) and participants. To determine overlapping and unique regions active during emotional anticipation, we compared neural activity during anticipation of pleasant or unpleasant exposure in the same participants. Cues signalled the upcoming presentation of erotic/romantic, violent, or everyday pictures while BOLD activity during the 9-s anticipatory period was measured using fMRI. Ventral striatum and a ventral mPFC subregion were activated when anticipating pleasant, but not unpleasant or neutral, pictures, whereas activation in other regions was enhanced when anticipating appetitive or aversive scenes.
Behavioural brain research : an international journal
overlapping and distinct neural activation
10.1016/j.bbr.2017.03.005
28267576
0166-4328
1872-7549
wos:2017
WOS:000401678300011
Sege, CT (reprint author), Med Univ South Carolina, Dept Psychiat & Behav Sci, 67 President St,2nd Fl IOP S, Charleston, SC 29425 USA., segect@phhp.ufl.edu
National Institute of Mental Health [MH098078, MH094386]
2022-05-09T09:04:04+00:00
sword
importub
filename=package.tar
4c2fe7e2e09c2c13490ea74d23f619a8
Sege, Christopher T.
false
true
Christopher T. Sege
Margaret M. Bradley
Mathias Weymar
Peter J. Lang
eng
uncontrolled
Anticipation
eng
uncontrolled
Emotion
eng
uncontrolled
fMRI
Psychologie
Referiert
Department Psychologie
Import
Green Open-Access