To build a more inclusive society that better integrates cyberspace and physical space, we must understand the appeal behind misinformation. Misformation focuses on maintain- ing an exclusive rather than integrating society. One of challenges following era information explosion is rapid spread misinformation in form fake news. People’s choices based can have dire consequences, especially smalle...

Upon hearing Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin in 1918 Jean Roger-Ducasse was disturbed by the incongruity between each movement's music and its dedication to a fallen soldier. Similarly, historians have noted ‘strangeness’ of Frontispiece La Valse, which Ravel wrote after his war service mother's death 1917. When taken together, these instances ‘strange’ – written during an especially emotionally...

Emotionally aware agents used to support human-computer interactions form the basis for our hybrid mediated agent architecture. This paper expands on our framework for an emotionally aware interface architecture that couples with the human user where data is mediated between agent processes for adaptive controlled assistive technologies. We present a hybrid emotionally aware mediated agent arch...

Dopamine (DA) transmission plays a critical role in the processing of emotionally salient information and in associative learning and memory processes. Within the mammalian brain, neurons within the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) are involved critically in the encoding, expression, and extinction of emotionally salient learned information. Within the mPFC, dopaminergic transmission is involved...

When they have to memorize a picture, people usually build a memory trace including more extensive boundaries than the original picture, a phenomenon known as boundary extension or BE. This article looks at whether the emotion category expressed (i.e., happiness, pleasure, irritation, or anger) by actors in short films could have an influence on the BE effect. The results showed that positively...