BACKGROUND Increased prevalence and widespread use of methamphetamine is the public challenge and worry in the world. It seems that low levels of self-regulation and affective control to carry up probability of psychoactive drugs abuse. OBJECTIVES The purpose of the present study is the comparison of self-regulation and affective control in methamphetamine and narcotics addicts and non-addict...

BACKGROUND Due to its progressive nature in all aspects of life, addiction endangers the health of individuals, families and the society. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the role of self-regulation and affective control in predicting interpersonal reactivity of drug addicts. MATERIALS AND METHODS This research is a correlation study. The statistical population of this ...

BACKGROUND The Heschl gyrus and planum temporale have crucial roles in auditory perception and language processing. Our previous investigation using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) indicated smaller gray matter volumes bilaterally in the Heschl gyrus and in left planum temporale in patients with first-episode schizophrenia but not in patients with first-episode affective psychosis. We sought t...

This research intends to design a system to control affective content in music production. This is done by taking into account a knowledge base with mappings between affective states (happiness, sadness, etc.) and music features (rhythm, melody, etc.). The knowledge base is grounded on the state of the art done in areas of Music Psychology. An emotional description specified by the user is used...

Insomnia is a prevalent disabling chronic disorder. The aim of this paper is fourfold: (a) to review evidence suggesting that dysfunctional forms of cognitive control, such as thought suppression, worry, rumination, and imagery control, are associated with sleep disturbance; (b) to review a new budding field of scientific investigation - the role of dysfunctional affect control in sleep disturb...

In this paper, we introduce a methodology for determining the utility of agent architectures by comparing them in an architecture framework APOC, which allows for the definition of a notion of “cost induced by an agent architecture”. Using this framework, it is in particular possible to compare the performance of affective agents to that non-affective agents in a unified way taking the cost of ...

Affective dynamics are discussed from the perspective of a view of origin and functions of affective valence based in control processes. This view posits that affect reflects the error signal of a feedback loop managing rate of progress at goal attainment or threat avoidance. Negative feelings signal doing poorly, demanding more effort. Positive feelings signal doing better than necessary, allo...