This study grew out of the observation of a remarkable sparing of emotional responses to music in the context of severe deficits in music processing after brain damage in a non-musician. Six experiments were designed to explore the perceptual basis of emotional judgments in music. In each experiment, the same set of 32 excerpts taken from the classical repertoire and intended to convey a happy ...

The aim of the study was to investigate the influence of hearing impairment on the preverbal vocalizations of infants by comparing utterances of normally hearing (NH) and profoundly hearing impaired (HI) infants. First, we focused on the acoustic structure of the three most common call types. Second, we examined the composition of call sequences. In both cases, we analyzed whether there are gen...

there is a significant difference between monogamous family and polygamous one, thus different family relationships are observed in each one. whenever deep changes are found in the shape of family, style of residence, number of members in family in terms of their role and status, the content and degree of conflict in the family is directly affected. never the less, all the theories used in this...

Commentaries focused on the emotional appraisal part of our article. Cunningham and Van Bavel argued for distinguishing core disgust from moral disgust, and we describe how the theory might accommodate their proposal. They also suggested that temporal and other comparisons could account for emotional variety. We concur, but see such comparisons as inherent in the different emotional objects. Wi...

Objective: To compare the emotional structure and coping strategies in patients with psychogenic non epileptic seizures, epilepsy and control group. Methods: Among patients with complaining of epilepsy attacks that referred to clinic of Imam Reza (Peace be upon him) in Shiraz, 30 patients with psychogenic non epileptic seizures and 30 patients with epilepsy were selected .A total of 30 patients...

The Social-Emotional and Character Development Scale (SECDS) is intended as a measnre of social-emotional skills and character for elementary school-age children. This study investigated the measure's psychometric properties using data collected over 5 waves for a cohort of students followed from Grades 3 to 5 in 14 nrban elementary schools (NRange ~ 500 to 593). Confirmatory factor analysis in...

Since several years, we are interested in understanding how babies learn to recognize facial expressions without having a teaching signal allowing to associate for instance an “happy face” with their own internal emotional state of happiness (Gergely and Watson, 1999). Using the cognitive system algebra (Gaussier, 2001), we showed a simple sensori-motor architecture using a classical conditioni...

What is the structure of emotion? Emotion is too broad a class of events to be a single scientific category, and no one structure suffices. As an illustration, core affect is distinguished from prototypical emotional episode. Core affect refers to consciously accessible elemental processes of pleasure and activation, has many causes, and is always present. Its structure involves two bipolar dim...

The revised attribution questionnaire (r-AQ) measures mental illness stigma. This study's purpose is to evaluate the factor structure of the (r-AQ) and examine the validity of the factor structure in adolescents. A convenience sample (n = 210) of adolescents completed the r-AQ and these data were used in exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory factor analyses (CFA). The EFA established a five item s...