We investigated to what extent emotional connotation influences cortical potentials during reading. To this end, event-related (ERPs) were recorded reading of high arousal pleasant and unpleasant low neutral adjectives that presented at rates 1 Hz 3 Hz. Enhanced processing both compared was first reflected in an amplified early posterior negativity (EPN) starting from 200 ms after word onset. Later (>300 ms), as analyzed the slower condition, revealed facilitated selectively for associated...

Electroencephalographic event-related brain potentials were recorded as subjects read, without further instruction, consecutively presented sequences of words. We varied the speed at which (3 Hz and 1 Hz) words' emotional significance. Early cortical responses during reading differentiated pleasant unpleasant words from neutral Emotional associated with enhanced arising in predominantly left occipito-temporal areas 200 to 300 ms after presentation. also spontaneously better remembered than...

Interoceptive awareness (IA) is associated with emotional experience, the processing of stimuli, and activation brain structures that monitor internal visceral state organism. Alexithymia characterized by difficulties in identifying describing one's emotions externally oriented thinking (EOT) reflects impairments regulation emotions. This study examined relationship between alexithymia IA a healthy population N=155 persons. A well-validated heartbeat perception task to measure interoceptive...

Abstract Affective startle modulation in the electromyographic (EMG), auditory evoked potentials, and visually potentials (VEPs) were assessed while subjects evaluated pleasant, unpleasant, neutral adjectives. Acoustic probes presented at random time points 2.5–4.0 s after word onset. The visual P2 P3 generally larger during processing of emotional than In contrast, late positive component was enhanced correlated with EMG responses potential amplitudes for pleasant words only. During...

The individual sensitivity for ones internal bodily signals (“interoceptive awareness”) has been shown to be of relevance a broad range cognitive and affective functions. Interoceptive awareness primarily assessed via measuring the cardiac (“cardiac which can non-invasively measured by heartbeat perception tasks. It is an open question whether related other bodily, visceral This study investigated relationship between gastric functions in healthy female persons using non-invasive methods....

The health benefits of regular physical activity and aerobic exercise are undisputed in the literature. present series pilot studies had two major objectives: (a) examine mental health, well-being, university students (b) explore potential short-term on an online a laboratory study. Mental well-being were measured before (Time 1, T1) after 2, T2) 6 week (online study) 2 (laboratory low- to moderate-intensity intervention. assessed using standardized self-report measures depression, anxiety,...

This event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study investigated brain activity elicited by emotional adjectives during silent reading without specific processing instructions. Fifteen healthy volunteers were asked to read a set of randomly presented high-arousing (pleasant and unpleasant) low-arousing neutral adjectives. Silent in contrast evoked enhanced activations visual, limbic prefrontal regions. In particular, pleasant produced more robust activation pattern the left...

Self-referential evaluation of emotional stimuli has been shown to modify the way are processed. This study aimed at a new approach by investigating whether self-reference alters emotion processing in absence explicit self-referential appraisal instructions. Event-related potentials were measured while subjects spontaneously viewed series and neutral nouns. Nouns preceded either personal pronouns ('my') indicating or definite article ('the') without self-reference. The early posterior...

Abstract Background The WHO has raised concerns about the psychological consequences of current COVID-19 pandemic, negatively affecting health across societies, cultures and age-groups. Methods This online survey study investigated mental health, subjective experience, behaviour (health, learning/teaching) among university students studying in Egypt or Germany shortly after first pandemic lockdown May 2020. Psychological assessment included stable personality traits, self-concept state-like...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to investigate hemodynamic responses adjectives pronounced in happy and angry intonations of varying emotional intensity. In separate sessions, participants judged the valence either intonation or semantics. To disentangle effects prosodic intensity from confounding acoustic parameters, mean variability volume fundamental frequency each stimulus were included as nuisance variables statistical models. A linear dependency between found bilateral...

This electroencephalography (EEG) study investigated at which temporal processing stages self-other discrimination in emotion occurs. EEG was recorded 23 healthy participants during silent reading of unpleasant, pleasant, and neutral pronoun-noun article--noun expressions that were related to the themselves, an unknown third person, or had no reference all. Self- other-related pronoun--noun pairs elicited larger cortical negativity relative left posterior electrodes as early 200 ms after...

The present study investigated event-related brain potentials elicited by true and false negated statements to evaluate if discrimination of the truth value information relies on conscious processing requires higher-order cognitive in healthy subjects across different levels stimulus complexity. material consisted sentences (sentence level) prime-target expressions (word level). Stimuli were presented acoustically no overt behavioral response participants was required. Event-related target...