Emotionally Intense Science Activities

Modulation of ongoing cognitive processes by emotionally intense words.

Contrary to what occurs with negative pictures, negative words are, in general, not capable of interfering with performance in ongoing cognitive tasks in normal subjects. A probable explanation is the limited arousing power of linguistic material. Especially intense words (insults and compliments), neutral personal adjectives, and pseudowords were presented to 28 participants while they execute...

Effects of friendship club activities on six emotionally disturbed children /

Functional neuroimaging of emotionally intense autobiographical memories in post-traumatic stress disorder.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects regions that support autobiographical memory (AM) retrieval, such as the hippocampus, amygdala and ventral medial prefrontal cortex (PFC). However, it is not well understood how PTSD may impact the neural mechanisms of memory retrieval for the personal past. We used a generic cue method combined with parametric modulation analysis and functional MRI...

Amygdala and heart rate variability responses from listening to emotionally intense parts of a story

Emotions are often understood in relation to conditioned responses. Narrative emotions, however, cannot be reduced to a simple associative relationship between emotion words and their experienced counterparts. Intensity in stories may arise without any overt emotion depicting words and vice versa. In this fMRI study we investigated BOLD responses to naturally fluctuating emotions evoked by list...

Computer Science Research Activities

• Design and formal verification of component-based complex systems (distributed, mobile, real-time and hybrid systems) and application to mechatronics, automobile, aeronautics and telecommunications industrial problems. • Semantic-based systems architectures and applications: Ontology-based systems architectures and application to e-learning systems, semantic integration of data and services, ...