The trauma related to death is always an intense emotional and psychological experience that tend shake the stability of life. Through Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), this study explored expression a close family member in women. A sample 5 women age ranging from 22 30 years were targeted information was collected through semi-structured interview. superordinate themes emerged a...

To investigate whether the processing of faces and emotional facial expression can be modulated by spatial attention, ERPs were recorded in response to stimulus arrays containing two faces and two non-face stimuli (houses). In separate trials, attention was focused on the face pair or on the house pair, and facial expression was either fearful or neutral. When faces were attended, a greater fro...

Intentionally adopting a discrete emotional facial expression can modulate the subjective feelings corresponding to that emotion; however, the underlying neural mechanism is poorly understood. We therefore used functional brain imaging (functional magnetic resonance imaging) to examine brain activity during intentional mimicry of emotional and non-emotional facial expressions and relate regiona...

In Part 1 we review task-switching and other studies showing that, even with time for preparation, participants' ability to shift attention a relevant attribute or object before the stimulus onset is limited: there 'residual cost'. particular, several brain potential markers of perceptual encoding are delayed on task-switch trials, compared task-repeat trials that require same as before. Such e...

This study examines the moderating role of emotional communication competence in the relationship between computer-mediated social support (CMSS) group participation, specifically giving and receiving emotional support, and psychological health outcomes. Data were collected as part of randomized clinical trials for women diagnosed with breast cancer within the last 2 months. Expression and rece...

This paper describes a pipeline by which facial expression and eyegaze of the user are tracked, and then 3D facial animation is synthesized in the remote place based upon timing information of the facial and eye movement information. The system first detects a facial area within the given image and then classifies its facial expression into 7 emotional weightings. Such weighting information, tr...

Previous research has suggested that older and young adults are equally able to regulate their outward expressions of emotion and that the regulation of emotional expression in younger adults results in decreased memory for the emotional stimulus. In the current study, we examined whether older adults show this same memory effect. Older and young adults viewed positive and negative emotional pi...

Human emotions are known to play an important role in the users’ engagement, namely by activating their attention, perception and memory skills, which in turn will help to understand the story – and hopefully perceive, or rather “feel” it as an entertaining experience. Despite the more and more realistic and immersive use of 3D computer graphics, multi-channel sound and sophisticated input devi...

This paper explores the perceptual relevance of acoustical correlates of emotional speech by means of speech synthesis. Besides, the research aims at the development of »emotionrules« which enable an optimized speech synthesis system to generate emotional speech. Two investigations using this synthesizer are described: 1) the systematic variation of selected acoustical features to gain a prelim...

Emotional face recognition is impaired in bipolar disorder, but it is not clear whether this is specific for the illness. Here, we investigated how aging and bipolar disorder influence dynamic emotional face recognition. Twenty older adults, 16 bipolar patients, and 20 control subjects performed a dynamic affective facial recognition task and a subsequent rating task. Participants pressed a key...