Comprehension of Emotion in Neurodegenerative Disorders Kelly L. Davis Prof. Douglas L. Chute While the dysprosody associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD) has been well described, findings from investigations on the comprehension of emotional intonation have been mixed. A hypothetical model of the requisite skills for comprehension of affective prosody is described and argues for the role of p...

Studies assessing processing of facial expressions have established that cortisol levels, emotional traits, and affective disorders predict selective responding to these motivationally relevant stimuli in expression specific manners. For instance, increased attentional processing of fearful faces (attentional bias for fearful faces) is associated with fear and anxiety and diminishes after admin...

objective: in this study, a new training method of working memory (wm) was used in the form of structured games, and the effect of training was evaluated with a controlled design. the training method of wm in the form of structured games includes 20 sets of structured games that can improve wm and performance of executive functions. method: sixty children with attention deficit hyperactivity di...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to compare the memory and mental development between dyslexia and normal children in khoy city. material and methods: this is causal-comparative study. the population of this research included all normal and dyslexic female students who were third- or fifth-graders (aged 9-12 years) from primary schools in khoy city, iran, in the academic year 2013-20...

Following an emotional experience, individuals are confronted with the persistence of ruminative thoughts that disturb the undertaking of other activities. In the present study, we experimentally tested the idea that experiencing a negative emotion triggers a ruminative process that drains working memory (WM) resources normally devoted to other tasks. Undergraduate participants of high versus l...

Working memory (WM) capacity is associated with various emotional aspects, including states of depression and stress, reactions to emotional stimuli, and regulatory behaviors. We have previously investigated the effects of WM training (WMT) on cognitive functions and brain structures. However, the effects of WMT on emotional states and related neural mechanisms among healthy young adults remain...

Emotional states can guide the actions and decisions we make in our everyday life through their influence on cognitive processes such as working memory (WM). We investigated the long-lasting interference that an unpleasant emotional state had on goal-relevant WM representations from an electrophysiological perspective. Participants performed a change detection task that was preceded by the pres...

Citation: Zhang D, Xie H, He Z, Wei Z and Gu R (2018) Impaired Working Memory Updating for Emotional Stimuli in Depressed Patients. Front. Behav. Neurosci. 12:65. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00065 Although two previous studies have demonstrated that depressed individuals showed deficits in working memory (WM) updating of both negative and positive contents, the effects were confounded by shifting d...

Working memory, used to temporarily store and mentally manipulate information, is important for children's learning. It is therefore valuable to understand which (contextual) factors promote or hinder working memory performance. Recent research shows positive associations between positive parent-child and teacher-student interactions and working memory performance and development. However, no s...

the purpose of the present study is developing “working memory training software”, and investigating the efficacy of this computerized cognitive training on students working memory. this study is in r&d; research category, and it is performed in a semi-experimental design. its data were collected from students of the third grade (30), fourth grade (30), and fifth grade (12) of primary school. t...