Browsing Psychology by Subject "Emotions"
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Forgetting emotional material in working memory
(Oxford University Press, 2017-12-20)Proactive interference (PI) is the tendency for information learned earlier to interfere with more recently learned information. In the present study, we induced PI by presenting items from the same category over several ... -
An in-depth cognitive examination of individuals with superior face recognition skills.
(2016-09)Previous work has reported the existence of "super-recognisers" (SRs), or individuals with extraordinary face recognition skills. However, the precise underpinnings of this ability have not yet been investigated. In this ... -
Modeling affective touch pleasantness across skin types at the individual level reveals a reliable and stable basic function.
(2022-12-01)Touch is perceived most pleasant when delivered at velocities known to optimally activate the C-tactile afferent system. At the group level, pleasantness ratings of touch delivered at velocities in the range between 0.3 ... -
The perception of affective and discriminative touch in blind individuals
(Elsevier, 2023-02-24)Enhanced tactile acuity in blindness is among the most widely reported results of neuroplasticity following prolonged visual deprivation. However, tactile submodalities other than discriminative touch are profoundly ... -
Rehabilitation of face-processing skills in an adolescent with prosopagnosia: Evaluation of an online perceptual training programme.
(2015)In this paper we describe the case of EM, a female adolescent who acquired prosopagnosia following encephalitis at the age of eight. Initial neuropsychological and eye-movement investigations indicated that EM had profound ... -
The Role of the Skin in Interoception: A Neglected Organ?
(2023-01)In the past 2 decades, interoception has received increasing attention in the fields of psychology and cognitive science, as well as neuroscience and physiology. A plethora of studies adopted the perception of cardiac ...