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Ana B. Vivas

Researcher at University of Sheffield

Publications -  71
Citations -  2340

Ana B. Vivas is an academic researcher from University of Sheffield. The author has contributed to research in topics: Inhibition of return & Cognition. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 67 publications receiving 2052 citations. Previous affiliations of Ana B. Vivas include Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & CITY College, International Faculty of the University of Sheffield.

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Are females more responsive to emotional stimuli? A neurophysiological study across arousal and valence dimensions.

TL;DR: A difference in the way emotional stimuli are processed by genders is suggested: unpleasant and high arousing stimuli evoke greater ERP amplitudes in women relatively to men, and unpleasant or high aroused stimuli are temporally prioritized during visual processing by both genders.
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A review of physical and cognitive interventions in aging.

TL;DR: This piece of work summarizes recent findings toward recommended multimodal training and highlights the role of functional brain connectivity work, an emerging discipline for future research in healthy aging and the study of the underlying mechanisms across the life span.
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The impact of bilingualism on the executive control and orienting networks of attention

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of bilingualism on the executive and orienting networks of attention were evaluated by comparing young bilingual and monolingual adults in a numerical version of the Stroop task, which allowed the assessment of the executive control network.
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On the Classification of Emotional Biosignals Evoked While Viewing Affective Pictures: An Integrated Data-Mining-Based Approach for Healthcare Applications

TL;DR: It is envisaged that the proposed approach holds promise for the efficient discrimination of negative and positive emotions, and it is hereby discussed how future developments may be steered to serve for affective healthcare applications, such as the monitoring of the elderly or chronically ill people.