Essays about: "EPN"

Found 3 essays containing the word EPN.

  1. 1. Affective language processing. Modulations of event-related potentials amplitude by induced mood in a valence judgment task

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Ekaterina Kopaeva; [2023]
    Keywords : affective processing; emotion; ERP; lexico-semantic processing; mood; valence; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Emotional vocabulary enjoys a processing advantage, with the emotional salience of a word detected at 200 ms post-presentation or earlier, signalling selective attention to its affective properties. An individual’s affective state also impacts attention and, by extension, affects processing. READ MORE

  3. 2. BRAIN ACTIVITY EFFECTS OF AWARENESS FOR EVOLUTIONARILY THREATENING STIMULI INVESTIGATING THE SNAKE DECTECTION HYPOTHESIS : INVESTIGATING THE SNAKE DETECTION HYPOTHESIS

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Author : Simone Grassini; [2016]
    Keywords : Evolution; ERP; EPN; Snake Detection Hipothesis;

    Abstract : Snakes are probably the best example of evolutionarily life-threatening stimulus as they have been one of the first predators of primates and mammals in general. In recent years, it has been shown that snake images produce specific behavioral and electrophysiological reactions in humans, provoking enhanced brain activity over the occipital cortex compared with pictures of other animals. READ MORE

  4. 3. Attention to the periphery attenuates the EPN and LPP

    University essay from Psykologiska institutionen

    Author : Elmeri Syrjänen; [2011]
    Keywords : Attention; Emotion; Motivation; ERP; EPN; LPP;

    Abstract : Current research shows that emotions have an important role in guiding attention and cognitions especially when the emotional stimuli are affective. Load theory proposes that when the perceptual load on attention is sufficiently high, irrelevant emotional stimuli is no longer attended to and thus will not produce a distracting effect. READ MORE