Search results for "emotion"

IN-UTERO Δ9-TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL EXPOSURE IMPINGES ON BRAIN EXECUTIVE PROCESSES TOWARDS EMOTIONAL, COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT, AND ALCOHOL VULNERABILITY IN…

2022

Music in the English classroom : effects on emotion and motivation perceived by the learners

2013

Tämän tutkielman tarkoituksena on selvittää, kuinka musiikin käyttäminen englannin opetuksessa voi vaikuttaa oppilaiden emootioihin ja motivaatioon. Oman kokemukseni mukaan kieltenopettajat kokevat yläasteikäisten oppilaiden motivoimisen ajoittain haasteelliseksi. Tutkimusta opettajien pedagogisten valintojen vaikutuksesta oppilaiden motivaatioon on kuitenkin tehty rajallisesti. Aikaisempi tutkimus on todennut, että musiikki näyttelee suurta osaa yläasteikäisten nuorten elämässä ja tämä tutkimus käsittelee nimenomaan musiikin potentiaalisia vaikutuksia oppilaiden motivaatioon. Tutkimus toteutettiin pienessä itäsuomalaisessa yläkoulussa. Tutkimus on tapaustutkimus eikä sen tuloksia voi yleis…

Concepts and Categories of Emotion in East Asia

2012

I contributi inclusi nel volume ruotano tutti intorno al tentativo di descrivere il concetto di emozione e di definirne le categorie nell'ambito delle culture dell'Asia Orientale, in particolare della Cina, del Giappone, dell'Indonesia.

The scope and limits of implicit visual change detection

2014

Age, gender, and puberty influence the development of facial emotion recognition

2015

Our ability to differentiate between simple facial expressions of emotion develops between infancy and early adulthood, yet few studies have explored the developmental trajectory of emotion recognition using a single methodology across a wide age-range. We investigated the development of emotion recognition abilities through childhood and adolescence, testing the hypothesis that children’s ability to recognise simple emotions is modulated by chronological age, pubertal stage and gender. In order to establish norms, we assessed 478 children aged 6-16 years, using the Ekman-Friesen Pictures of Facial Affect. We then modelled these cross-sectional data in terms of competence in accurate recogn…

Physically Experienced Reactions and Music : A Questionnaire Study of Musicians and Non-Musicians

2013

Studying physically experienced reactions such as chills, tears, and racing heart (sometimes generally referred to as thrills) represents an important approach to music and emotion. A questionnaire study methodologically based on Sloboda's influential article (1991) partly confirms the results but disagrees with them in some findings. More frequent physical reactions during music listening in women reported by previous studies were confirmed only for respondents older that 30 in thisstudy. In partial accordance with some of previous studies, more frequent physical reactions in professional musicians than in amateur musicians and non-musicians were found and goose-pimples and chills appeared…

A phenomenological investigation of the emotional experiences of elite Brazilian coaches

2014

Coaches of elite athletes often need to work under stressful conditions and therefore may experience moments where emotional intensity is running very high. As a result, their physical and mental well-being may be affected. Nevertheless, little attention has been given to the emotional side of the coaches in current scientific literature (Potrac, Jones, Purdy, Nelson, & Marshall, 2013). With this in mind, the purpose of this study was to explore coaches’ stressors and other pleasant and unpleasant emotional experiences related to their coaching performance. Specifically, coaches’ awareness of their emotions and situational triggers were examined. Six highly experienced Brazilian coaches wer…

Emotional Information Space in Designing AI Technologies

2022

Current and future AI design needs to recognize the intertwined nature of cognition and affect to design more human-like intelligent systems. The majority of current AI design focuses on cognitive information processes and knowledge. However, human action and human-like actions must also consider the emotional aspects of the environment. We present the concept of emotional information space, which incorporates all issues within a certain environment with cognitively appraised affective meanings and the ability to encode these information contents into designing emotionally intelligent technologies.

Designing a Low-Fat Food Packaging: Comparing Consumers’ Responses in Virtual and Physical Shopping Environments

2021

This paper aims to test to what extent emotional responses towards a low-fat product presented virtually converge with emotional responses toward this product when presented physically. Second, we want to probe if low-order emotions (physiological/unconscious responses) and high-order emotions (cognitive/conscious responses) converge to explain healthy product choices. To this end, 83 young participants were engaged in our experiment. Two packaging design variables were manipulated with the help of a real company (the color and the message), so that six different packages were created. Two different buying contexts were simulated: A virtual context and a physical context. Physiological resp…

Pregnenolone sulphate (PREGS) affects spatial learning and memory in two different cognitive tasks in adult rats. Influence of the emotional state.

2009

Pregnenolone sulphate (PREGS) is one of the most potent memory-enhancing neurosteroids in rodent learning studies, also involved in the modulation of the emotional state (Valleè et al 2001). Neurosteroids exert an important role as modulators of the neuronal activity by interacting with different receptors or ion channels (Urani et al 1998). Indeed PREGS acts as negative modulator of GABAA- and as positive modulator of NMDA -receptors. Altered levels of PREGS have also been reported during aging and in human neurodegenerative pathologies like Alzheimer’s disease. The aim of this study was to investigate, in adult male rats, the effects of a single injection of PREGS (10 mg/kg s.c.) on: i) o…