Emotion and Hemispheric DominanceEmpirical studies on the hemispheric dominance for the processing of emotions are reviewed and discussed with respect to three hypotheses postulating, first, an overall dominance of the right hemisphere for emotional ...
This study tests whether playing violent video games leads to desensitization and increased cardiovascular responding. In a laboratory experiment, 42 men spent 20 min playing either a high- or low-violence version of a “first-person shooter” game. Arousal ...
Intersensory Facilitation: Visual accessory signals can also shorten reaction timeAbstract. Subjects respond faster to a visual response signal when an auditory accessory is presented at the same time. In contrast, a visual accessory does not reduce ...
The use of mobile phones has been shown to increase drivers' reaction times (RTs), but whether this results from interference with attention, stimulus identification, or response production remains unclear. We recorded RTs and event-related brain ...
Abstract: The concepts of arousal and activation have had a confused history in Psychophysiology, and there is no widely accepted consensus on their usefulness in the field. This study aimed to explore whether these concepts could be separated in terms of ...
The nociceptive flexion reflex has been regarded as an objective correlate of pain perception. This study examined whether the nociceptive flexion reflex is modulated by physiological arousal in the same manner as pain. Cardiovascular activity, ...
How long induced moods last is a critical question for mood research, but has been only poorly addressed to date. In particular, physiological parameters have rarely been included to assess the effectiveness of mood induction procedures. We investigated ...
Long reaction times (RT) paradoxically occur with extremely loud auditory stimuli (Van der Molen & Keuss, 1979, 1981) or with ultrabright and large visual stimuli (Jaśkowski & Włodarczyk, 2006) when the task requires a response choice. Van der Molen and ...
This study was conducted to test the hypothesis that two films that induce a sad feeling would elicit different physiological responses depending on an additional context of the film contents related to either avoidance (disgust) or attachment (tenderness)...
The independent influence of valence and arousal on emotional hemispheric brain asymmetry was investigated to decide between three contrasting hypotheses: the right hemisphere hypothesis, the valence hypothesis, and the integrative hypothesis. Event-...
The temporal dynamics of electroencephalogram (EEG)-vigilance as a measure of tonic cortical arousal are discussed as pathogenetic factors in neuropsychiatric disorders. Although there is broad knowledge about the interaction of cortical arousal and ...
A fundamental aspect of successful social interaction is the fact people do not always experience or express emotions to their fullest extent but instead control them in a context-dependent manner. Emotion regulation involves the manipulation of ...
This paper investigates psychological and psychophysiological components of arousal and emotional response to a violin chord stimulus comprised of continuous increases (up-ramp) or decreases (down-ramp) of intensity. A factorial experiment manipulated ...
The magnitude and habituation of startle reflex responses have been used to evaluate the excitability of the neural structures involved in this psychophysiological response. We analyzed the magnitude and habituation responses to startle reflex probes in ...
Abstract. The purpose of the experiment was to test the relationship between attributes of color, self-rated arousal, and autonomic reactions to color stimuli. Sixteen colored backgrounds of different hue, saturation, and brightness were ...
Abstract. The ovarian hormone levels can affect subjective ratings and modulate late positive potential (LPP) amplitudes evoked by images of varying appeal. The present study examines how different progesterone levels influence the valence,...
Abstract. The study presents self-report and psychophysiological data obtained in response to short film clips representing scenes related to different emotions. This was done in order to obtain evidence on the structure of positive ...
In this paper the conceptual nervous system approach to the study of personality is traced back to the ideas of Pavlov. The links between his ideas and two strands of modern European personality theory (Eysenck's, 1967 , arousal theory of extraversion; ...