Embodiment is made possible by the ability to imagine ourselves in a particular situation (mental simulation). Postural changes have been demonstrated in response to painful situations, but the effect of an implicit instruction has not been studied. The present study was designed to record differential responses according to whether or not subjects were instructed to imagine themselves in a pai...

Large-amplitude (10-15 K) millennial-duration warming events, the Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) events, repeatedly occurred in the North Atlantic region during ice ages. So far, the trigger of these events is not known. To explain their recurrence pattern, a ghost stochastic resonance (GSR) scenario has been suggested, i.e., a dynamical scenario in which the events represent the subharmonic response ...

In an interpretation of the group therapy situation as a complex stimulus field, 37 therapy sessions were studied with reference to the nature of the association between a physiological parameter (GSR) and dimensions of social interaction. The group, consisting of a nurse-therapist and two schizophrenic patients, was observed and coded in terms of 11 social categories. The social behavior of th...

Affective reasoning holds significant potential for intelligent tutoring systems. Incorporating affective reasoning into pedagogical decision-making capabilities could enable learning environments to create customised experiences that are dynamically tailored to individual students’ ever-changing levels of engagement, interest, motivation and self-efficacy. Because physiological responses are d...

THE relation of the cerebral cortex to the activity of the sympathetic nervous system is not yet fully clear. The clinical and experimental observations, which have recently been reviewed by Kennard (1937), have been conflicting, and there have been few quantitative determinations of the effects of cortical stimulation and ablation upon the functions of the human sympathetic nervous system. Man...

This paper describes the design and development of both software to create social interaction modules on a virtual reality (VR) platform and individualized affective models for affect recognition of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), which includes developing tasks for affect elicitation and using machine-learning mathematical tools for reliable affect recognition. A VR system will ...

Affective reasoning holds significant potential for interactive digital entertainment, education, and training. Incorporating affective reasoning into the decision-making capabilities of interactive environments could enable them to create customized experiences that are dynamically tailored to individual users’ ever changing levels of engagement, interest, and emotional state. Because physiolo...

People are biased partisans: they tend to agree with policies from political parties they identify with, independent of policy content. Here, we investigate how physiological reactions to political parties shape bias. Using changes in galvanic skin conductance responses to the visual presentation of party logos, we obtained an implicit and physiological measure of the affective arousal associat...

How do police cope with the visual demands placed on them during pursuit driving? This study compared the hazard ratings, eye movements, and physiological responses of police drivers with novice and with age-matched control drivers while viewing video clips of driving taken from police vehicles. The clips included pursuits, emergency responses, and control drives. Although police drivers did no...

The UMTRI Airbag Skin Burn Model has been improved through laboratory testing and the implementation of a more flexible heat transfer model. A new impinging jet module based on laboratory measurements of heat flux due to high-velocity gas jets has been added, along with an implicit finite-difference skin conduction module. The new model can be used with airbag gas dynamics simulation outputs, o...