A main question in emotion and memory literature concerns the relationship between the immediate impact of emotional distraction on perception and the long-term impact of emotion on memory. While previous research shows both automatic and resource-mediated mechanisms to be involved in initial emotion processing and memory, it remains unclear what the exact relationship between the immediate and...

Object manipulation techniques in robotics can be categorized in two major groups including manipulation with and without grasp. The aim of this paper is to develop an object manipulation method where in addition to being grasp-less, the manipulation task is done in a passive approach. In this method, linear and angular positions of the object are changed and its manipulation path is controlled...

This paper discusses an emotional prosody generator for a Malay speech synthesis system that can re-synthesize the selected vocal emotion from neutral synthesized speech output and improve the naturalness by adopting rulebased prosody conversion techniques. The role of prosodic features in emotional expression, particularly fundamental frequency and duration, has been widely investigated in sev...

Evidence is accruing that people can maintain their emotional states, but how they do it and which brain regions are responsible still remains unclear. We examined whether people maintain emotional states 'actively', with explicit elaboration of the emotion, or 'passively', without elaboration. Twenty-four participants completed an emotion maintenance task in which they either maintained the em...

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Nobody would deny that music may evoke deep and profound emotions. In this paper, we present a perceptual music composition system that aims at the controlled manipulation of a user’s emotional state. In contrast to traditional composing techniques, the single components of a composition, such as melody, harmony, rhythm and instrumentation, are selected and combined in a userspecific manner wit...

The paper describes the BotCom complex embedded conversational agent system, which is accessible over the Internet and capable of high quality natural language processing as well as sophisticated manipulation of emotions. It relies on an extension of Plutchik’s emotional model. Experimental cases leading to useful constraints for optimization are discussed. BotCom, a prototype for a robust comm...

the study aimed to check the mediation role of cognitive emotional regulation for emotional safety and emotional problems such as stress, anxiety and depression. the sample of this study consisted of 240 high school students in fasa, fars (120 girls and 120 boys). the method of sampling was multistage cluster sampling. the mean age for the sample was 16.3 years old with sd=1.5. the scales that ...

Manipulation which is a type of social influence occurs when person influences and operates another by changing their thoughts or behaviors. differs from its purpose. Harmful manipulation has features such as suppressing the manipulating person, restricting free will showing implicit aggression. At same time, manipulator’s motives are hidden goal to benefit manipulator. Dating violence defined ...

Since Damasio introduced the somatic markers hypothesis in Damasio (1994), it has spread through the psychological community, where it is now commonly acknowledged that somatic states are a factor in producing the qualitative dimension of our experiences. Present actions are emotionally guided by those somatic states that were previously activated in similar experiences. In this model, somatic ...