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Kamil Imbir, Maciej Pastwa, Magdalena Walkowiak
In the verbal affective priming paradigm, the properties of a subliminally presented stimulus alter the interpretation of neutral target stimulus. In the experiment reported here, we tested the role of four factors (valence, origin, arousing properties and subjective significance) that determine the emotional reactions…
Todd McElroy, William Young
Background Affect can influence people’s perceptions, decisions, and the way they make sense of an experience. Some studies show that having one’s cell phone removed will lead to negative emotional reactions, while others have found no significant impact on how we feel. In this paper we investigate the impact of cell…
Guangtao Nie, Yibing Zhan
—Affective computing is an emerging interdisciplinary field where computational systems are developed to analyze, recognize, and influence the affective states of a human. It can generally be divided into two subproblems: affective recognition and affective generation. Affective recognition has been extensively…
Ruth Mª de Jesús Gómez, María A. Cornu-Labat
In recent decades, there has been an increased interest in psychology to understand the emotional experience. This growing interest has led to a proliferation of terms, among which regulation, intelligence, and emotional competence stand out. Research in these areas has facilitated a better understanding of what…
Yuhan Zhang, Wenqi Chen, Ruihan Zhang, Xiajie Zhang
A growing body of research in natural language processing (NLP) and natural language understanding (NLU) is investigating human-like knowledge learned or encoded in the word embeddings from large language models. This is a step towards understanding what knowledge language models capture that resembles human…
Daniel Bennett, Angela Radulescu, Sam Zorowitz, Valkyrie Felso + 2 more
Positive and negative affective states are respectively associated with optimistic and pessimistic expectations regarding future reward. One mechanism that might underlie these affect-related expectation biases is attention to positive- versus negative-valence features (e.g., attending to the positive reviews of a…
Leena Mathur, Maja J. Matarić, Louis‐Philippe Morency
In recent decades, the field of affective computing has made substantial progress in advancing the ability of AI systems to recognize and express affective phenomena, such as affect and emotions, during human-human and human-machine interactions. This paper describes our examination of research at the intersection of…
Francisco Ibarrola, Rohan Lulham, Kazjon Grace
In creativity support and computational co-creativity contexts, the task of discovering appropriate prompts for use with text-to-image generative models remains difficult. In many cases the creator wishes to evoke a certain impression with the image, but the task of conferring that succinctly in a text prompt poses a…
Moeen Mostafavi, Michael D. Porter, Dawn T. Robinson
Affect control theory (ACT) is a mathematical model of culture-based action that relies on culturally-grounded model specifications to predict behaviors, emotions, and new cultural meanings that arise from local interactions. The theory has been used to make successful predictions about interpersonal social behavior…
Lars-Michael Schöpper, Alicia Jerusalem, Lisann Lötzke, Christian Frings
Imagine you have to reach for a certain cable behind your desk. While initiating the reaching movement, you notice spider webs and a huge spider sitting next to the cable you are aiming to grab. The spider is not the cause of your action, but close or even direct contact is still unavoidable. Will the spider hinder…
Yuta Katsumi, Matthew Moore
Subjectively arousing experiences tend to be better remembered than neutral ones. While numerous task-related neuroimaging studies have revealed the neural mechanisms associated with this phenomenon, it remains unclear how variability in the extent to which individuals show superior memory for subjectively arousing…
Danielle Hewitt, Sahba Besharati, Victoria Williams, Michelle Leal + 4 more
Affective touch, involving touch-sensitive C-tactile (CT-) afferent nerve fibres, is integral to human development and wellbeing. Despite presumed cultural differences, affective touch research typically includes ‘Western’, minority-world contexts, with findings extrapolated cross-culturally. We report the first…
Madelyn G. Nance, Zackary T. Landsman, Gregory J Gerling, Meghan H. Puglia
Classic attachment theory emphasizes the sensitivity of the parent to perceive and appropriately respond to the infant’s cues. However, parent-child attachment is a dyadic interaction that is also dependent upon the sensitivity of the child to the early caregiving environment. Individual differences in infant…
Chuanji Gao, Susan Ajith, Marius V. Peelen
The rapid emotional evaluation of objects and events is essential in daily life. While visual scenes reliably evoke emotions, it remains unclear whether emotion schemas evoked by daily-life scenes depend on object processing systems or are extracted independently. To explore this, we collected emotion ratings for 4913…
Matthias Schiedel, Darius McArdle, Gilda Padalino, Anthony Chan + 7 more
Schistosomiasis is a disease affecting over 200 million people worldwide, but its treatment relies on a single agent, praziquantel. To investigate new avenues for schistosomiasis control, we have conducted the first systematic analysis of bromodomain-containing proteins (BCPs) in a causative species, Schistosoma…
LJ Pehkonen, I Szczot, H Olausson, S McIntyre
Although the general outlines of pleasant touch perception and C low threshold mechanoreceptors (C-LTMRs) have been sketched out, the current extent of knowledge still pales in comparison to our understanding of other neural pathways and somatosensory modalities, e.g., pain and nociceptive C-fibres. This project…
Jiwon Lee
Dopamine is a hormone that is released by the adrenal gland and influences motor control and motivation. Dopamine is known to have 5 receptors which are D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5, which are further categorized into 2 families: D1 family and D2 family. The D1 family is known to play a role in motivation and motor control…
Kyosuke Futami, Sadahiro Yanase, Kazuya Murao, Tsutomu Terada + 1 more
'Raffaele Gravina'] Artificial Intelligence (AI) for human emotion estimation, such as facial emotion estimation, has been actively studied. On the other hand, there has been little research on unconscious phenomena in cognition and psychology (i.e., cognitive biases) caused by viewing AI emotion estimation…
Si Cheng, Wenjie Jin, Xuanbing Shan, Elif Bengisu Kara + 4 more
Emotional experience shapes not only how we perceive the present but also how the past influences our judgments. In this study, we examined how emotional arousal and valence modulate serial dependence in time perception—a phenomenon in which prior experiences bias current estimates. Using a duration reproduction task…
Janet Sasso, Barbara Ambrose, Rumiana Tenchov, Ruchira Datta + 3 more
In the last decade, there has been a shift in research, clinical development, and commercial activity to exploit the many roles of RNA in physiology for use in medicine. With the rapid success in the development of lipid-RNA nanoparticles for mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and with several approved RNA-based drugs, RNA…
Shinsuke Segawa, Xinwen Ou, Tianruo Shen, Tomohiro Ryu + 9 more
Fluorescent imaging, a key technique in life science research, frequently utilizes fluorogenic probes for precise imaging in living systems. Tetrazine is an effective emission quencher in the design of fluorogenic probes, which can be selectively damaged upon bioorthogonal click reactions, leading to considerable…
Dana Zoabi, Elinor Abado, Simone Shamay-Tsoory, Leehe Peled-Avron
Social touch is essential for reducing stress, improving mood and fostering a sense of social connectedness. Stimuli related to social touch are generally perceived as positive. Nevertheless, the social restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic may have changed the way human beings perceive and react to social…