TY  - JOUR
A1  - Festman, Yariv
A1  - Adam, Jos J.
A1  - Pratt, Jay
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
T1  - Both hand position and movement direction modulate visual attention
JF  - Frontiers in psychology
N2  - The current study explored effects of continuous hand motion on the allocation of visual attention. A concurrent paradigm was used to combine visually concealed continuous hand movements with an attentionally demanding letter discrimination task. The letter probe appeared contingent upon the moving right hand passing through one of six positions. Discrimination responses were then collected via a keyboard press with the static left hand. Both the right hand's position and its movement direction systematically contributed to participants' visual sensitivity. Discrimination performance increased substantially when the right hand was distant from, but moving toward the visual probe location (replicating the far-hand effect, Festrnan et al., 2013). However, this effect disappeared when the probe appeared close to the static left hand, supporting the view that static and dynamic features of both hands combine in modulating pragmatic maps of attention.
KW  - embodied cognition
KW  - covert attention
KW  - hand dynamics
KW  - near-hand effect
KW  - perception
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00657
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 4
IS  - 4
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Füstös, Jürgen
A1  - Gramann, Klaus
A1  - Herbert, Beate M.
A1  - Pollatos, Olga
T1  - On the embodiment of emotion regulation - interoceptive awareness facilitates reappraisal
JF  - Frontiers in human neuroscience
N2  - The ability to cognitively regulate emotional responses to aversive events is essential for mental and physical health. One prerequisite of successful emotion regulation is the awareness of emotional states, which in turn is associated with the awareness of bodily signals [interoceptive awareness (IA)]. This study investigated the neural dynamics of reappraisal of emotional responses in 28 participants who differed with respect to IA. Electroencephalography was used to characterize the time course of emotion regulation. We found that reappraisal was accompanied by reduced arousal and significant modulation of late neural responses. What is more, higher IA facilitated downregulation of affect and was associated with more pronounced modulation of underlying neural activity. Therefore, we conclude that IA not only advances the consolidation of somatic markers required for guiding individual behaviour but also creates processing advantages in tasks referring to these bodily markers.
KW  - interoception
KW  - interoceptive awareness
KW  - embodied cognition
KW  - emotion regulation
KW  - reappraisal
KW  - evoked potentials
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nss089
SN  - 1749-5016
SN  - 1749-5024
VL  - 8
IS  - 8
SP  - 911
EP  - 917
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -