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Are we sensitive to valence differences in emotionally negative stimuli? Electrophysiological evidence from an ERP study.
Jiajin Yuan,Qinglin Zhang,Qinglin Zhang,Antao Chen,Antao Chen,Hong Li,Hong Li,Quanhong Wang,Quanhong Wang,Zhongchunxiao Zhuang,Zhongchunxiao Zhuang,Shiwei Jia,Shiwei Jia +12 more
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It is suggested that humans are only sensitive to valence differences in negative stimuli, and that these negative valences could be processed differentially throughout the information processing stream even when individuals are highly engaged in a non-emotional task.About:
This article is published in Neuropsychologia.The article was published on 2007-01-01. It has received 213 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Valence (psychology).read more
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Gender differences in behavioral inhibitory control: ERP evidence from a two-choice oddball task
Jiajin Yuan,Yuanyuan He,Yuanyuan He,Zhang Qing-lin,Zhang Qing-lin,Antao Chen,Antao Chen,Hong Li,Hong Li +8 more
TL;DR: The results showed faster reaction times for deviant stimuli in women than in men, although RTs for standard stimuli were similar across genders, and gender-related behavioral inhibitory control may relate to differential inhibitory demands by each gender during evolution.
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High-frequency Broadband Modulations of Electroencephalographic Spectra.
Julie Onton,Scott Makeig +1 more
TL;DR: It is found that unitary modes of spectral modulation of frequencies encompassing the beta, gamma, and high gamma frequency ranges can be isolated from scalp-recorded EEG data and may be differentially associated with brain sources and cognitive activities.
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Are effects of emotion in single words non-lexical? Evidence from event-related brain potentials.
TL;DR: Recording event-related potentials (ERPs) in a lexical decision task with written adjectives, verbs, and nouns of positive, negative, and neutral emotional valence indicated that in all three word classes examined, emotional evaluation as represented by the EPN has a post-lexical locus.
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The neural mechanism underlying the female advantage in identifying negative emotions: an event-related potential study.
Hong Li,Jiajin Yuan,Chongde Lin +2 more
TL;DR: Aside from the increased sensitivity of both genders to the highly negative stimuli, the present study demonstrated that women, instead of men, are sensitive to emotionally negative stimuli of lesser saliency, which may be an important mechanism underlying the female advantage in identifying negative emotions.
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Reading emotional words within sentences: The impact of arousal and valence on event-related potentials
TL;DR: Emotion effects in ERPs were evident in a late positive complex (LPC) for negative, high-arousal words in comparison to neutral words, and the LPC was unaffected by pure arousal variation when valence was controlled for, indicating the importance of valence for this emotion-related ERP effect.
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Speed of processing in the human visual system.
TL;DR: The visual processing needed to perform this highly demanding task can be achieved in under 150 ms, and ERP analysis revealed a frontal negativity specific to no-go trials that develops roughly 150 ms after stimulus onset.
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Automatic Vigilance: The Attention-Grabbing Power of Negative Social Information
Felicia Pratto,Oliver P. John +1 more
TL;DR: To test whether attentional resources are automatically directed away from an attended task to undesirable stimuli, Ss named the colors in which desirable and undesirable traits appeared, and color-naming latencies were consistently longer for undesirable traits but did not differ within the desirable and desirable categories.
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Negative information weighs more heavily on the brain: The negativity bias in evaluative categorizations.
TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that negative information tends to influence evaluations more strongly than comparably extreme positive information, even though both were equally probable, evaluatively extreme, and arousing.