Search results for "ERPs"

Appetizer or main dish? Explaining the use of Facebook news posts as a substitute for other news sources

2019

An increasing number of, especially younger, users use Facebook as their primary source for news about political and societal issues. At the same time, research suggests that Facebook use contributes to societal knowledge gaps. Against this background, we investigate the antecedents of using Facebook as a substitute for other news sources. We argue that exposure to news posts on Facebook increases the feeling of being well-informed, regardless of actual knowledge acquisition. This might lead users, especially those with a low need for cognition (NfC), to use Facebook as a substitute for other news sources. We test these assumptions with an online survey (n=390) of German Internet users. Res…

La ricostruzione da immagini con tecniche di restituzione prospettica

2018

Il contributo è incentrato sulla ricostruzione di opere di architettura perdute da fotografie attraverso l’uso di tecniche di restituzione prospettica. Una breve introduzione illustra le ragioni che relegano la restituzione prospettica a un ruolo secondario nel contesto delle ricostruzioni virtuali; il paragrafo successivo illustra i risultati di un test sul confronto fra restituzione prospettica da singolo fotogramma e restituzione SfM. Il paragrafo conclusivo descrive la ricostruzione virtuale di una chiesa di Palermo, demolita nella prima metà del XX secolo e documentata da poche foto d’epoca. The paper focuses the 3D reconstruction of buildings that were destroyed during the World War I…

Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment as a Challenge to Research Ethics

2016

This article analyzes the ethical discussion focusing on the Facebook emotional contagion experiment published by the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</em> in 2014. The massive-scale experiment manipulated the News Feeds of a large amount of Facebook users and was successful in proving that emotional contagion happens also in online environments. However, the experiment caused ethical concerns within and outside academia mainly for two intertwined reasons, the first revolving around the idea of research as manipulation, and the second focusing on the problematic definition of informed consent. The article concurs with recent research that the era of social med…

Patterns of variation in tail ornament size in birds

1988

In recent years several different kinds of sexual selection models have been developed, and tail ornaments in birds have frequently been used as an example of a sexually selected character where the models might apply. However, very little is known about intra- and interpopulation variation in ornament size. We have studied the elongated tail ornaments in four species of whydahs Vidua, the forktailed flycatcher Tyrannus savana and the Asian paradise flycatcher Terpsiphone paradisi. Ornaments were relatively longer in males with the longest tarsi (‘heterogony’ with positive allometry). Also, tail lengths were remarkably variable within each geographical area, the coefficient of variation (av…

A wavelet Methodology for EEG Time-frequency Analysis in a Time Discrimination Task

2009

EEG signals recorded by surface electrodes placed on the scalp can be thought as non- stationary stochastic processes in both time and space, especially in response to external stimuli. Cognitive tasks, in particular, are reflected by changes in EEG dynamics concerning both rhythms energy and connectivity across different brain regions. In the frequency-domain, EEG analysis is complicated and time-frequency methodologies are needed. The Wavelet Transform, in particular, represents a powerful tool for analysing, within a time-frequency embedding, the EEG. In this study we applied a wavelet-based methodology to extract quantitative time-frequency parameters from EEG signals recorded during a …

Preattentive detection of rare audiovisual feature conjunctions by the human brain as reflected by the mismatch negativity

2007

Emotional modulation of the attentional blink and the relation to interpersonal reactivity

2013

The extent of the attentional blink effect on detection rates in rapid serial visual presentations is modulated by the emotionality of the stimuli. Emotionally salient stimuli are detected more often, even if presented in the attentional blink period, and elicit an enlarged P3 response, which has been interpreted as enhanced consolidation. This effect correlates with individual differences in trait affectivity such as anxiety or dysphoria. Here, we ask if it is also related to the capacity to detect emotions in others, i.e., to interpersonal social traits. We therefore presented emotional and neutral images depicting social scenes as targets in an attentional blink design and measured detec…

Brain responses of dysphoric and control participants during a self‐esteem implicit association test

2021

Previous studies have reported lowered implicit self‐esteem at the behavioral level among depressed individuals. However, brain responses related to the lowered implicit self‐esteem have not been investigated in people with depression. Here, event‐related potentials were measured in 28 dysphoric participants (individuals with elevated amounts of depressive symptoms) and 30 control participants during performance of an implicit association task (IAT) suggested to reflect implicit self‐esteem. Despite equivalent behavioral performance, differences in brain responses were observed between the dysphoric and the control groups in late positive component (LPC) within 400–1,000 ms poststimulus lat…

Change detection to tone pairs during the first year of life : Predictive longitudinal relationships for EEG-based source and time-frequency measures

2019

Brain responses related to auditory processing show large changes throughout infancy and childhood with some evidence that the two hemispheres might mature at different rates. Differing rates of hemispheric maturation could be linked to the proposed functional specialization of the hemispheres in which the left auditory cortex engages in analysis of precise timing information whereas the right auditory cortex focuses on analysis of sound frequency. Here the auditory change detection process for rapidly presented tone-pairs was examined in a longitudinal sample of infants at the age of 6 and 12 months using EEG. The ERP response related to change detection of a frequency contrast, its estima…

The cumulative effect of positive and negative feedback on emotional experience

2021

The cumulative effect of positive or negative feedback on subsequent emotional experiences remains unclear. Elucidating this effect could help individuals to better understand and accept the change in emotional experience, irrespective of when they or others receive consecutive positive or negative feedback. This study aimed to examine this effect on 37 participants using self-reported pleasantness and event-related potential data as indicators. After completing each trial, the participants received predetermined false feedback; they were then assessed on a nine-point pleasantness scale. There were 12 false feedback conditions categorized into three valence types. The positive type consiste…