BACKGROUND Several prospective longitudinal studies have suggested that somatic/affective depressive symptoms, but not cognitive/affective depressive symptoms, are related to prognosis in patients with heart disease, but findings have been inconsistent. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of cognitive/affective and somatic/affective symptoms of depression with cardiovascula...

Despite a long history and a large volume of affective research, measuring affective states is still a non-trivial task that is complicated by numerous conceptual and methodological decisions that the researcher has to make. We suggest that inconsistent results reported in some areas of research can be partially explained by the choice of measurements that capture different manifestations of af...

The Affective Norms for Polish Short Texts (ANPST) dataset (Imbir, 2016d) is a list of 718 affective sentence stimuli with known affective properties with respect to subjectively perceived valence, arousal, dominance, origin, subjective significance, and source. This article examines the reliability of the ANPST and the impact of population type and sex on affective ratings. The ANPST dataset w...

We analyze the relationship between a variety of affective constructs that have been researched, as it is not clear what is the breadth of affecitve variables to model -which constructs are equivalent, related, or unrelated.

This special section focuses on cognitive and affective processes in multimedia learning in a range of learning domains. Expanding previous research that has taken a predominantly cognitive perspective of multimedia learning, recent studies have begun to consider affective aspects of multimedia learning with the aim of integrating emotion, motivation, and other affective variables into cognitiv...

OBJECTIVE To identify independent risk factors for affective disorders in temporal lobe epilepsy. METHODS We studied 97 patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) exploring variables like age, gender, family history of epilepsy and psychiatric disorders, duration of epilepsy, control of seizures, presence of aura and initial precipitant insult, abuse of substances, neuroimaging and EEG featur...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this research was to identify environmental and personal factors that could be related to the variability in the age of onset of familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) (36-62 years). METHODS A sample was taken of 49 subjects with FAD and with the mutation E280A in the presenilin-1 gene on chromosome 14; the sample was divided into two subgroups: 27 individuals with age of...

Words are widely used as stimuli in cognitive and linguistic research. As words may vary on various domains (e.g., lexicosemantic affective), which can influence performance many ways, it is essential to select them carefully. However, databases of European Portuguese still relatively scarce, their presentation spread sources. The aims this work were: (1) provide a review the containing informa...

This paper describes the use of sensors in intelligent tutors to detect students' affective states and to embed emotional support. Using four sensors in two classroom experiments the tutor dynamically collected data streams of physiological activity and students’ self-reports of emotions. Evidence indicates that state-based fluctuating student emotions are related to larger, longer-term affecti...

The need to provide computers with the ability to distinguish the affective state of their users is a major requirement for the practical implementation of Affective Computing concepts. The determination of the affective state of a computer user from the measurement of some of his/her physiological signals is a promising avenue towards that goal. In addition to the monitoring of signals typical...