Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study brain activity related to the experience of emotion presents unique challenges to neuroscientists. One important consideration arises when an experimentally induced subjective emotional response persists after the end of the emotional stimulation epoch. In this case, brain activity related to the emotional response may continue during ...

In this chapter, the authors explore social constructivist theories of emotion, which suggest that emotional behaviors are developed through experience, rather than innate. The authors’ approach to artificial emotions follows this paradigm, stemming from a relatively young field called developmental or ‘epigenetic’ robotics. The chapter describes the design and implementation of a robot called ...

Emotion has a substantial influence on the cognitive processes in humans, including perception, attention, learning, memory, reasoning, and problem solving. Emotion has a particularly strong influence on attention, especially modulating the selectivity of attention as well as motivating action and behavior. This attentional and executive control is intimately linked to learning processes, as in...

Introduction: The present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of emotional intelligence interventions, sexual fantasies, and integrated protocol in treating the orgasmic disorder, performance, and quality of sexual life. Method: The type of study is quasi-experimental based on the pretest-posttest design. The study population consisted of all married women aged 30-45 years who had a marit...

With the continuous development of society, people's living standards and aesthetic needs are constantly improving, which promotes further visual communication design. When designing works, designers should not only consider their own opinions about related but also them from audience's standpoint, so that feelings between can resonate. Nowadays, people gradually pursuing spiritual needs. Visua...

This paper shows how Design Patterns may be used to reveal important properties of object-oriented development methods. The responsibility-driven and event-driven design methods are contrasted with a direct encoding of analysis models to show how these methods properly transform and layer systems. Each method elevates a different modularising principle: contract minimisation and existence depen...

This study examines whether emotion conveyed in recorded and synthesized voices affects perceptions of emotional valence of content, perceptions of suitability of content, liking of content, and credibility of content as well as whether recorded or synthesized speech influences perceptions differently. Participants heard two news stories, two movie descriptions and two health stories in a 2 (ty...