A5014191066- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Epilepsy research and treatment
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2013-2024
University of Illinois System
2020
University of Alberta
2009-2014
North Carolina State University
2007
Romanian Academy
2000
University of Bucharest
1996
Despite ample support for enhanced affective well-being and emotional stability in healthy aging, the role of potentially important dimensions, such as arousal, has not been systematically investigated neuroimaging studies. In addition, few behavioral studies that examined effects arousal have produced inconsistent findings. The present study manipulated pictorial stimuli to test hypothesis preserved functioning aging is modulated by level identify associated neural correlates. Young older...
Converging evidence identifies trait optimism and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) as personality brain factors influencing anxiety, but nature of their relationships remains unclear. Here, mechanisms underlying protective role increased OFC volume against symptoms anxiety were investigated in 61 healthy subjects, who completed measures underwent structural scanning using magnetic resonance imaging. First, gray matter (GMV) was associated with optimism, which turn reduced anxiety. Second,...
The effects of emotion on memory are wide-ranging and powerful, but they not uniform. Although there is agreement that enhances for individual items, how it influences the associated contextual details (relational memory, RM) remains debated. prevalent view suggests impairs RM, also evidence RM. To reconcile these diverging results, we carried out three studies incorporating following features: (1) testing RM with increased specificity, distinguishing between
Background Previous investigations revealed that the impact of task-irrelevant emotional distraction on ongoing goal-oriented cognitive processing is linked to opposite patterns activation in and perceptual vs. control/executive brain regions. However, little known about role individual variations these responses. The present study investigated effect trait anxiety neural responses mediating transient anxiety-inducing performance, correlates coping with such distraction. We whether activity...
Abstract People often talk to themselves using the first‐person pronoun (I), but they also as if are speaking someone else, second‐person (You). Yet, relative behavioral control achieved by I and You self‐talk remains unknown. The current research was designed examine potential advantage of in role attitudes this process. Three experiments compared effects on problem solving performance intentions. Experiment 1 revealed that giving self‐advice about a hypothetical social situation yielded...
Although available evidence suggests that the emotional valence and recollective properties of autobiographical memories (AMs) may be influenced by personality- sex-related differences, overall these relationships remain poorly understood. The present study investigated issues comparing effect general personality traits (extraversion neuroticism) specific linked to emotion regulation (ER) strategies (reappraisal suppression) on retrieval AMs associated postretrieval states, in men women....
Effective social interactions require the ability to evaluate other people's actions and intentions, sometimes only on basis of such subtle factors as body language, these evaluative judgments may lead powerful impressions. However, little is known about impact affective language responses in settings associated neural correlates. This study investigated correlates observing a business setting, which whole-body dynamic stimuli displayed approach avoidance behaviors that were preceded or not...
Theory and research link regulatory focus (RF) in the form of promotion prevention goal orientation with internalizing symptoms (e.g., anxiety), but relevant mechanisms are not well understood. This study investigated role two emotion regulation (ER) strategies (cognitive reappraisal expressive suppression) as possible mediators. Path analysis using data from 179 healthy young participants (110 women, 69 men) revealed that stronger was significantly associated less anxiety, use suppression...
We examined functional performance on multiple indicators for two cognitive status groups: (a) not impaired controls (NIC) and (b) mild impairment (MCI). identified markers associated with differences, changes, stability in status.In the Victoria Longitudinal Study (VLS) we group effects cross-sectional performance, longitudinal stability, (c) change, (d) marker prediction of later status. assembled from five continuous clusters MCI-related factors: biological vitality, activity lifestyle,...
Anxious individuals tend to show a negative affective bias in attention that likely reflects reduced executive control, cognitive function associated with the inferior frontal cortex (IFC), particularly its posterior segment, pars opercularis. Here, we investigated relations among gray matter volume opercularis of IFC, trait anxiety, and biases attention, healthy participants. Sixty-two adults underwent structural magnetic resonance imaging scanning, completed anxiety measure, performed an...
Remembering emotional autobiographical memories (AMs) is important for well-being, and investigation of the role emotion regulation (ER) during AM recollection has relevance understanding mental health issues. Although significant progress been made in brain mechanisms underlying ER AM, less known about recollection. The present study investigated how focusing away (or 'distracting') from content influences subjective re-experiencing emotions associated neural correlates, by manipulating...
Subjective happiness (well-being) is a multi-dimensional construct indexing one's evaluations of everyday emotional experiences and life satisfaction, has been associated with different aspects trait empathy. Despite previous research identifying the neural substrates subjective empathy, mechanisms mediating relationship between two constructs remain largely unclear. Here, we performed data-driven, multi-voxel pattern analysis whole-brain intrinsic functional connectivity to reveal empathy...
The present paper describes a comprehensive protocol for manual tracing of the set brain regions comprising medial temporal lobe (MTL): amygdala, hippocampus, and associated parahippocampal (perirhinal, entorhinal, proper). Unlike most other protocols available, typically focusing on certain MTL areas (e.g., amygdala and/or hippocampus), integrative perspective adopted by guidelines allows clear localization all subregions. By integrating information from variety sources, including extant...