Our understanding of how we simulate other people's actions and feelings to recognize their emotional states is extended by a new study which finds that premotor and somatosensory cortices are required to process the emotional meaning of sounds.

We introduce an emotional agent model that shows how emotions affect an agent’s negotiation strategy. By adding emotions, we add the effects of these indirectly related features to the negotiation, features that are ignored in most models. Our new method, the PAD Emotional Negotiation Model, maps a nonemotional agent’s strategy during negotiation to the strategy used by an emotional agent. Our ...

The fast growing technology of agents and the rise of emotional intelligence opened the doors to many new and interesting ideas. Among these ideas, one that has captured the interest of many researchers within the AI community is the development of emotional agents. While research on emotional agents is in a very early stage, many models have been developed to simulate emotions in agents. Some ...

objective: it has been recognized that sleep has an important effect on emotion processing. the aim ‎of this study was to investigate the effect of previous night sleep duration on autonomic ‎responses to musical stimuli in different emotional contexts.‎ method: a frequency based measure of gsr, pr and ecg signals were examined in 35 healthy ‎students in three groups of oversleeping, lack of sl...

An implementation of an autonomous resource-bound agent able to operate in a simulated dynamic and complex domain is described. The agent, called MINDER1, is a partial realisation of an architecture for motive processing and attention. It is shown that a global processing state, called perturbance, can emerge from interactions of subcomponents of the architecture. Perturbant states are characte...

An implementation of an autonomous resource-bound agent able to operate in a simulated dynamic and complex domain is described. The agent, called MINDER1, is a partial realisation of an architecture for motive processing and attention. It is shown that a global processing state, called per-turbance, can emerge from interactions of subcomponents of the architecture. Perturbant states are charact...

Artificial emotional intelligence is vital for integration of future robots into the human society. This work introduces one possible approach to representation and processing of emotional mental states and attitudes (appraisals) in a cognitive architecture. The developed framework will allow for implementation of emotional intelligence in artifacts, including emotionally informed behavior and ...

With the increasing spread of the social web, identifying emotions in texts has proved to have various applications in fields like opinion mining or market analysis. Emotion recognition from written statements does not only reveal information about the person who wrote them, but can also be used in predicting how the emotional state of the readers can be affected. We propose a novel automatic m...

The psychological process how tinnitus loudness leads to tinnitus distress remains unclear. This cross-sectional study investigated the mediating role of the emotional state "stress level" and of the two components of the emotional state "arousal" and "valence" with N = 658 users of the "TrackYourTinnitus" smartphone application. Stress mediated the relationship between tinnitus loudness and ti...