Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Wivine Blekic, Kendra Kandana Arachchige, Erika Wauthia, Isabelle Simoes Loureiro, Laurent Lefebvre, Mandy Rossignol
Summary: This study aims to provide a new set of standardized stimuli containing images depicting interpersonal situations, allowing for a sensitive assessment of various cognitions linked to social interaction.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
M. Trettin, J. Dvorak, M. Hilke, S. Wenzler, M. Hagen, N. Ghirmai, M. Staeblein, S. Matura, A. -C. Huthmacher, D. Kraft, C. Balaban, A. Ciaramidaro, D. Prvulovic, C. Knoechel, A. Reif, V. Oertel
Summary: This study examined the neural basis of emotional processing in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The results showed lower activation in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) in MDD patients compared to healthy volunteers (HV). Higher arousal and valence of negative stimuli as well as more severe depression were negatively associated with left DLFPC activity in MDD patients.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
M. Trettin, J. Dvorak, M. Hilke, S. Wenzler, M. Hagen, N. Ghirmai, M. Staeblein, S. Matura, A. -C. Huthmacher, D. Kraft, C. Balaban, A. Ciaramidaro, D. Prvulovic, C. Knoechel, A. Reif, V. Oertel
Summary: This study used fMRI to compare the emotional processing differences between patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and healthy volunteers (HV). The results showed lower activation levels in certain brain regions during the processing of negative emotional stimuli in MDD patients compared to HV.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Eri Nakagawa, Motofumi Sumiya, Takahiko Koike, Norihiro Sadato
Summary: The study found that praise enhances motor performance, and feedback of acceptance or rejection activates different brain areas. Social signals can influence the early visual cortex and affect the motor control system through this process.
Article
Food Science & Technology
Pei Liang, Jiayu Jiang, Liuqing Wei, Qingguo Ding
Summary: This study investigated the relationship between affective pictures and taste words by examining participants' hedonic and arousal ratings. The results showed that positive affective pictures were associated with the word "sweet", negative pictures with low to medium arousal were associated with "sour", and negative and neutral pictures with strong arousal were associated with "bitter". Neutral pictures with mild to medium arousal were not significantly associated with any taste word.
FOOD QUALITY AND PREFERENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Jordan E. Pierce, Eisha Haque, Maital Neta
Summary: This study investigates the reappraisal ability and affective flexibility in children and adolescents and finds that flexibility in children contributes to the success of reappraisal. Furthermore, distinct brain mechanisms are identified that support reappraisal success and affective flexibility.
DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Nicolas M. Brunet, Natalya K. Marsh, Caitlin R. Bean, Zachary A. Powell
Summary: This study demonstrates that an individual's trust in law enforcement affects their perception of emotional facial expressions displayed by police officers. Individuals with negative views of the police perceive faces with police hats as angrier, while those with positive attitudes perceive them as less angry.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Norberto E. E. Naal-Ruiz, Luz M. M. Alonso-Valerdi, David I. I. Ibarra-Zarate, Alba Serrano-Cena, Gustavo Navas-Reascos
Summary: This study aims to validate the IADS-2 database and additional sounds in a sample from the Mexican population. Results were consistent with previous research, but differences were found in terms of gender and geographic region.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Luchun Wang, Xiying Li, Zhongling Pi, Shuoqi Xiang, Xuemei Yao, Senqing Qi
Summary: The study compared the spatiotemporal dynamics of affective and semantic valence by combining event-related potentials with repeated exposure. Early stages showed similarities between the two modes, while differences in brain activation patterns were evident in later stages.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Brigitte Fischer, Cornelia Herbert
Summary: The study extends previous research by investigating affective ratings of emoji, emoticons and human faces, and shows that emoji elicited highest arousal, stimuli related to happiness were rated highest in valence, and angry emoji were rated highest in emotionality. Additionally, discrete emotion was best recognized in emoji compared to human face stimuli and emoticons.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Shir Atzil, Ajay B. Satpute, Jiahe Zhang, Michael H. Parrish, Holly Shablack, Jennifer K. MacCormack, Joseph Leshin, Srishti Goel, Jeffrey A. Brooks, Jian Kang, Yuliang Xu, Matan Cohen, Kristen A. Lindquist
Summary: Thirty years of neuroimaging research have identified a set of brain regions consistently associated with pleasant and unpleasant emotions in humans. However, prior studies have not examined how the neural reference space for emotions varies in social contexts. In this meta-analysis of 614 neuroimaging studies, we found that social and non-social affective stimuli activate similar brain regions involved in visceromotor control. However, social processing also involves additional cortical activations implicated in mentalizing and prediction. A Bayesian classifier could differentiate pleasant and unpleasant affect, but not social from non-social affect. These findings suggest that highly social scenarios may have equal salience to humans, regardless of valence.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Gai Cao, Peng Liu
Summary: The study found that negative valence stimuli may interfere with motor preparation more strongly at high arousal levels than at medium arousal levels, indicating that the emotional value has a more significant impact on the motor interference effect. The results suggest that subjects are more sensitive to negative valence stimuli at high arousal levels, leading to an increased behavioral motor interference effect.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Lukasz D. Kaczmarek, Maciej Behnke, Jolanta Enko, Michal Kosakowski, Przemyslaw Guzik, Brian M. Hughes
Summary: This study examined the relationship between valence and approach-avoidance motivation, finding that high-approach emotions had a stronger link between valence and approach-avoidance motivation. Contrary to expectations, individuals exhibited avoidance responses during anger elicitation. Awe was identified as a distinct positive emotion where approach motivation dominated over valence.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychiatry
Hyeri Moon, Gieun Nam, Ji-Won Hur
Summary: Emerging evidence suggests that individuals who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) may have deficits in emotion processing. However, little attention has been given to the socio-affective functions of NSSI. In this study, researchers aimed to investigate the affective theory of mind (ToM) in medication-free individuals with NSSI at both behavioral and neural levels. The results showed that although there were no significant differences in performance on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET), the NSSI group exhibited different brain activation patterns compared to the control group, with increased activation in the left medial superior frontal lobe and decreased activation in the right angular gyrus. Reduced activation in the right angular gyrus was associated with higher scores on difficulties in emotion regulation and alexithymia. These findings provide new evidence for abnormal neural processing of affective ToM in self-injurers.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Ting Xu, Gregory Kiar, Jae Wook Cho, Eric W. Bridgeford, Aki Nikolaidis, Joshua T. Vogelstein, Michael P. Milham
Summary: This article presents an integrative toolbox called Reliability eXplorer (ReX) that aids in examining individual variation and reliability in neuroscience biomarker discovery. Additionally, the article introduces a two-dimensional field map-based approach called gradient flows, which is implemented in ReX to identify and represent the most effective optimization direction for measuring individual differences.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Trevor W. K. Yung, Cynthia Y. Y. Lai, Jacob Y. C. Chan, Shamay S. M. Ng, Chetwyn C. H. Chan
EUROPEAN CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
(2020)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Leung-Pong Lee, Afifah Wing-Yiu Har, Chun-Hei Ngai, Daniel W. L. Lai, Bess Yin-Hung Lam, Chetwyn Che-Hin Chan
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Chung-Ying Lin, Mike K. T. Cheung, Anchor T. F. Hung, Peter K. K. Poon, Sam C. C. Chan, Chetwyn C. H. Chan
THERAPEUTIC ADVANCES IN ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM
(2020)
Article
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Umar Muhammad Bello, Stanley John Winser, Chetwyn C. H. Chan
MEDICAL HYPOTHESES
(2020)
Article
Neurosciences
Umar M. Bello, Stanley J. Winser, Chetwyn C. H. Chan
REVIEWS IN THE NEUROSCIENCES
(2020)
Article
Neuroimaging
Jingsong Wu, Horace Tong, Zhongwan Liu, Jing Tao, Lidian Chen, Chetwyn C. H. Chan, Tatia M. C. Lee
Summary: The study found significant differences in the relationships between perceived stress levels and neurobiological markers in adolescents and middle-aged adults, indicating an age-dependent pattern of correlation between stress perception and brain structure.
BRAIN IMAGING AND BEHAVIOR
(2021)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Monisha Ingold, Nikki Tulliani, Chetwyn C. H. Chan, Karen P. Y. Liu
Article
Neurosciences
Clive H. Y. Wong, Jiao Liu, Tatia M. C. Lee, Jing Tao, Alex W. K. Wong, Bolton K. H. Chau, Lidian Chen, Chetwyn C. H. Chan
Summary: This study investigated the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive processing speed using different modalities and task rules in attention tasks. The findings suggest that long-range connections might be related to cognitive control, while short-range connections are associated with rule-based stimulus-response processes. This revealed neural network indicates that automaticity, task rules, and effortful top-down attentional control contribute to cognitive speed.
Article
Neurosciences
Abiot Y. Derbie, Bolton K. H. Chau, Clive H. Y. Wong, Li-Dian Chen, Kin-hung Ting, Bess Y. H. Lam, Tatia M. C. Lee, Chetwyn C. H. Chan
Summary: The study aimed to gather evidence from previous functional brain imaging experiments to understand the neural processes of allocentric and egocentric spatial coding. The results revealed common and unique neural processes associated with these two types of spatial coding, mediated by different brain networks. Task-specific influences were only observed in allocentric spatial coding, offering insights for future spatial task design.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Rehabilitation
Mary M. L. Chu, Josephine Chan, Chetwyn C. H. Chan
Summary: The study identified that the baseline Chinese Symptom Severity Scale (SSS) score was the significant predictor for the outcomes of the Stage-One programme for CTS patients, while the baseline Chinese QuickDASH score was the significant predictor for the outcomes of the Stage-Two programme. These findings have practical applications in guiding client-centered treatment planning in clinical practice.
HONG KONG JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
(2021)
Letter
Clinical Neurology
Bella B. B. Zhang, Rebecca L. D. Kan, Tsz-Fung Woo, Chetwyn C. H. Chan, Kenneth N. K. Fong, Georg S. Kranz
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Clive H. Y. Wong, Jiao Liu, Jing Tao, Li-dian Chen, Huan-ling Yuan, Mabel N. K. Wong, Yan-wen Xu, Tatia M. C. Lee, Chetwyn C. H. Chan
Summary: Age-related cognitive slowing is a precursor of cognitive decline. This study examined how inter- and intra-brain network influences mediate age-related cognitive slowing. The results suggest that inter-network connectivity from the cerebellar network (CN) and fronto-insular salience network (SN) to the frontoparietal dorsal attention network (DAN) play significant roles in age-related cognitive slowing.
Review
Psychology, Developmental
Huan-Ling Yuan, Cynthia Y. Y. Lai, Mabel N. K. Wong, Tak Chun Kwong, Yat Sze Choy, Steve W. Y. Mung, Chetwyn C. H. Chan
Summary: This review examines sensory over-responsivity (SOR) in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and highlights the close relationship between SOR and prenatal and genetic factors. Recent studies suggest that SOR symptoms are associated with abnormal brain connectivity, specifically decreased inter-hemispheric connectivity in subcortical regions and increased intra-hemispheric connectivity, as well as an enlarged amygdala. These findings indicate that the functional abnormalities associated with SOR may be due to reduced top-down regulation and inhibition, leading to difficulty in filtering and integrating sensory information and generating excessive responses to stimuli.
CURRENT DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Neuroimaging
Wenjun Hong, Zhiyong Zhao, Dongmei Wang, Ming Li, Chaozheng Tang, Zheng Li, Rong Xu, Chetwyn C. H. Chan
NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL
(2020)
Article
Rehabilitation
Connie Sung, Fong Chan, Nicole Ditchman, Chetwyn Chan
JOURNAL OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION
(2020)