Dissociating the physiological components of unconscious emotional responses

Emotional and physiological responses to touch massage

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. Abstract 4 ABSTRACT Background: Clinical findings indicate that touch massage has the ability to induce positive emotions and influence stress responses. However, little is known about m...

Unconscious Emotional Memories and the Right Hemisphere

Dissociating conscious and unconscious learning with objective and subjective measures.

According to functionalist theories, consciousness can be defined by the functions that it serves and by the way it contributes to cognition. For example, when trying to establish dissociations between conscious and unconscious knowledge, conscious representations would be identified by the fact that they allow cognitive control or successful identification or recollection, assessed by verbal r...

Dissociating perception from action during conscious and unconscious conflict adaptation.

The detection of a conflict between relevant and irrelevant information on a given trial typically results in a smaller conflict effect on the next trial. This sequential effect has been interpreted as an expression of cognitive control implemented to resolve conflict. In this context, 2 different but related issues have received increasing attention in the literature. The first issue is whethe...

Does Plant Color Affect Emotional and Physiological Responses to Landscapes?

Research has shown that people have distinct preferences for and positive emotional responses to trees with a wide canopy. This is the same shape that trees have in regions of Africa’s savannas with appropriate water for human habitation. Tree color is another important cue to habitats that are appropriate for human habitation. For example, nutrient deficient trees would appear yellowish. This ...