Emotional Images Research Articles

Emotion regulation in adolescents with major depression – Evidence from a combined EEG and eye-tracking study

BackgroundAdolescent major depression (MD) is characterized by deficits in emotion regulation (ER). Little is known about the neurophysiological correlates that are associated with these deficits. Moreover, the additional examination of visual attention during ER would allow a more in-depth understanding of ER deficits but has not yet been applied simultaneously. MethodsN = 33 adolescents with MD and n = 35 healthy controls (HCs) aged 12–18 years performed an ER task during which they either a) down-regulated their negative affective response to negative images via cognitive reappraisal or b) attended the images without changing their affective response. During the task, the Late Positive Potential (LPP), gaze fixations on emotional image aspects, and self-reported affective responses were collected simultaneously. ResultsCompared to HCs, adolescents with MD demonstrated reduced ER success based on self-report but did not differ in LPP amplitudes. Participants in both groups showed increased amplitudes in the middle LPP window when they reappraised negative pictures compared to when they attended them. Only in the HC group, increased LPP amplitudes during reappraisal were paralleled by more positive affective responses. LimitationThe applied stimuli were part of picture databases and might therefore have limited self-relevance. ConclusionsIncreased LPP amplitude during ER in both groups might be specific to adolescence and might suggest that ER at this age is challenging and requires a high amount of cognitive resources. These findings provide an important starting point for future interventional studies in youth MD.

THEORETICAL ASPECT OF EMOTIONAL COMPREHENSION OF THE WORLD BY PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

The article highlights the problem of the theoretical aspect of emotional understanding of the world by preschool children. Emotional understanding of the world in preschool children is considered as an integrated process that determines the child's holistic view of the world and himself in it through emotional connections and experiences. It has been proven that early age is sensitive in terms of mastering the world, forming worldviews, and value attitudes towards oneself and other people. Primitive and complex, positive and negative, primary and secondary, sthenic and asthenic types of emotions are characterized. Common models and structural components of emotions are analyzed. It has been proven that the emotional understanding of the world in preschool children is carried out through emotional images, experiences and states, feelings that arise in certain life situations and are fixed in emotional reactions. It has been investigated that there are four phases of emotion development: cumulation (accumulation, summation), explosion, reduction of tension and extinction. The mechanisms of emotions are revealed: verbal/non-verbal, physiological, behavioral and neural. It has been established that emotions have certain properties in understanding the world, common to everyone, in particular, they are universal, dynamic, polar, ambivalent, intense, subjective, contagion, switching, recall, irradiation, plastic, transfer. The functions of emotional understanding of the world (signal, evaluative, motivational, adaptive, compensatory) are characterized.

Examining the Impact of Acetaminophen on Early Attentional Processing of Emotional Images

Examining the Impact of Acetaminophen on Early Attentional Processing of Emotional Images

Research on Experience Perception of Qingcheng Mountain Homestay based on Network Text Analysis

This paper selects Qingcheng Mountain homestay as the research object, collects online reviews of the top 50 homestays ranked by Ctrip's popularity on the Internet through octopus collectors, and obtains 3008 valid samples through sorting. Using text analysis research methods, this paper uses ROST CM6 software tools to analyze high-frequency words and emotional images, and discusses consumers' experience and perception of Qingcheng Mountain homestay. The study found that consumers' perception of Qingcheng Mountain B&B mainly reflected in five aspects: geographical environment, B&B facilities, service quality, emotional evaluation, and willingness to stay again. They were most concerned about the health situation and infrastructure inside the B&B, as well as the service attitude of the B&B service providers. Therefore, operators of B&B in Qingchengshan should strengthen the health management of B&B, update the basic functional facilities of B&B, optimize the service quality, and further improve the accommodation experience of consumers.

Emotional visual stimuli and simulated laparoscopic surgical performance: A pilot cohort study

BackgroundExposure to stress prior to or during surgery can negatively impact performance. Management of stress is an essential non-technical skill required for safe practice. The effects of exposure to emotional visual stressors on surgical performance are poorly understood. This study aims to develop a model to investigate effects of emotive visual stimuli on simulated laparoscopic performance. Methods and materialsA single-centre cohort study. Thirty novice, simulator-naïve medical students were randomly allocated to view either positive, negative, or neutral emotional images (sourced from validated image registry). Participants focused for 5 s on the image before completing a peg-threading laparoscopic task. Time, instrument distance, speed, acceleration, motion smoothness, and ambidexterity were recorded automatically with instrument tracking software. 8 task cycles were completed; 3 control practices followed by 5 with the stimuli, according to group allocation. ResultsThe final performance metrics of students (time, distance, speed, and motion smoothness) were not significantly different when comparing positive and neutral stimuli groups to those shown negative stimuli. However, changes were seen in the rate of performance improvements (positive: p = 0.711, p = 0.837, p = 0.297, and p = 0.393) (neutral: p = 0.285, p = 0.918, p = 0.835, and p = 0.396). Participation improved performance metrics overall (p=<0.001, p=<0.001, p = 0.088, p = 0.025, p=<0.001). ConclusionModel systems may be valuable for investigating the impact of stress on surgeon performance. The effect of emotive visual stimuli on surgical performance is complex. This model may aid the further exploration of these relationships and ultimately can provide an environment in which surgeons can develop strategies to mitigate the adverse effect of stressors.

Reward association impairs recognition of incidentally encoded negative information: Electrophysiological evidence

Previous studies investigating the effect of reward on emotional episodic memory have produced inconsistent results. In this study, through two experiments using event-related potentials (ERPs), we investigated the effect of reward association on the encoding and retrieval of incidentally encoded emotional information, and examined whether this effect changes over time. Participants in the two experiments were asked to discriminate the emotional valence of color images under reward or no-reward condition and incidentally encode them. Immediate (in Experiment 1) or 24-hour delayed (in Experiment 2) recognition after encoding was tested. In Experiments 1 and 2, reward (relative to no-reward) significantly improved the recognition of positive and neutral items, but significantly reduced the recognition of negative items. During encoding, the significant ERP reward effects (significantly more positive ERP amplitude for rewarded items than for non-rewarded ones) for positive and neutral images were widely distributed from 200 to 1500 ms after image onset, while those for negative stimuli occurred mainly from 200 to 500 ms. During retrieval, the significant ERP reward effects for positive and neutral items occurred in the two experiments, but the reversed ERP reward effects for negative items were found only in Experiment 1. The results of the present study suggest that reward association affects the encoding and retrieval of emotional images by enhancing memory processing efficiency of positive and neutral items, while impairing recognition of negative items, thus yielding a robust and sustained modulation over frontal/frontocentral or centroparietal/parietal areas where mechanisms of reward and emotion processing operate in conjunction.

Analysis of factors influencing the image perception of tourism scenic area planning and development based on big data

Abstract Based on the big data algorithm, this paper provides a detailed description of the SVM model, optimizes the algorithmic process of SVM with the GWO algorithm, and constructs the GWO-SVM classification model. The GWO-SVM is used for data mining analysis of image perception of tourism scenic planning and development, and three factors affecting image perception, namely image perception attributes, emotional image, and exploratory variables, are mined with the example of a city tourism scenic area. Regarding image perception attributes, the average percentages of functionality, wholeness, psychology, and uniqueness are 79%, 81.97%, 59.35%, and 17.95%, respectively. The perfect tourism facility function and good tourism atmosphere are the tools to enhance tourists’ image perception of tourist attractions. In terms of emotional image data, the percentage of “excited” and “pleasant” emotions are 25.66% and 27.06%, respectively, while the percentage of “frustrated” emotions is only 2.93%. In the exploratory variables, the percentage of “excited” and “happy” emotions were 25.66% and 27.06%, respectively, while the percentage of “frustrated” emotions was only 2.93%. Among the exploratory variables, the approval rates of tourism facilities, natural and humanistic landscapes, and scenic activities are 65.09%, 48.29%, and 47.52%, respectively, which means that play facilities, various landscapes, and preferential activities are good ways to enhance the image recognition, of scenic spots. The reasonable use of big data analysis technology can make the goal of planning and developing tourist attractions clearer and also help to improve the image recognition of tourist attractions and increase the economic benefits of tourist attractions.

Экспрессивная функция сегментных единиц поэтического текста: универсальные и национально-специфические признаки

&lt;p&gt;The article focuses on the system of expressive means of poetic text. There are two ways how to research the poetic text: the first is based on the linguistic approach while the second is based on the perception of the emotional mood of the poetic text. The aim of the research is to identify the correlation between the formal features of the poetic text in the phonological aspect and the way its emotional mood is conveyed and perceived in the text. The object of the research is sound poetic texts. The subject is the elements of the segmental level in their expressive function. The novelty of the approach is as follows: there is an attempt to combine the structural (phonological) analysis with the psycholinguistic data in the field of the theory of emotionality, which allows us to offer the mechanism of research of the sound-pictorial possibilities of a poetic text, based on the frequency of differential signs of phonemes. The authors rely on E.N. Vinarskaya&amp;rsquo;s basic emotions concept. A psycholinguistic experiment on the perception of sounding German poetic texts by native speakers of German and Russian is carried out. The linguistic part of the experiment includes phonetic notation of poetic texts by phonetic auditors. After that the received data of the psycholinguistic and linguistic parts of the experiment is analyzed for the correlation of the associated emotion and the frequency of realization of phonological features of vowel phonemes by localization (row and timbral characteristics of vowels) and fullness (short-open-unstressed and long-closed-unstressed). The analysis of the data is comparative in relation to two groups of informants in German and Russian. The comparative aspect of the study allows us to identify universal and nationally specific signs of perception and correlate it with the basic emotions. Universal feature is the fact that the complexes of phonologically relevant features function as signs in shaping the emotional image of a word. Nationally specific feature reflects the frequency of realization in accordance with the associated emotion in the perception of German and Russian speakers.&lt;/p&gt;

Effect of Taste-Induced Mood on ERP and Emotional Assessment of Images.

Tastes affect the body and our emotions. We used tasteless, sweet, and bitter stimuli to induce participants' moods, and we examined the effect of mood on an emotional evaluation of pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant images using event-related potentials, N2, N400, and late positive potential (LPP), which reflect emotional evaluation in the brain. The results indicated that mood valence was most positive for sweetness and most negative for bitterness. Moreover, there was no significant mood effect on subjective valence ratings of emotional images. Furthermore, the N2 amplitude, which is related to the early semantic processing of preceding stimuli, was unaffected by the taste induced mood. In contrast, we found that the N400 amplitude, which is related to the mismatch of emotional valence between stimuli, increased significantly for unpleasant images when participants were in a positive rather than negative mood state. Also, the LPP amplitude, which is related to the emotional valence of images, showed only the main effect of the images' emotional valence. The N2's results suggest that the early semantic processing of taste stimuli might have had a negligible impact on emotional evaluation because taste stimuli minimize semantic processing that accompanies mood induction. In contrast, the N400 reflected the effects of the induced mood, and the LPP reflected the impact of the valence of emotional images. The use of taste stimuli to induce mood revealed different brain processing of taste-induced mood effects on emotional evaluation, including N2's involvement in semantic processing, N400's involvement in matching emotions between mood and stimuli, and LPP's involvement in subjective evaluations of stimuli.

Images, Emotions, and Credibility: Effect of Emotional Facial Expressions on Perceptions of News Content Bias and Source Credibility in Social Media

Images are an indispensable part of the news we consume. Highly emotional images from mainstream and misinformation sources can greatly influence our trust in the news. We present two studies on the effects of emotional facial images on users' perception of bias in news content and the credibility of sources. In study 1, we investigate the impact of repeated exposure to content with images containing positive or negative facial expressions on users’ judgements of source credibility and bias. In study 2, we focus on sources' systematic emotional portrayal of specific politicians. Our results show the presence of negative (angry) facial emotions can lead to perceptions of higher bias in content. We also find that systematic portrayal negative portrayal of different politicians leads to lower perceptions of source credibility. These results highlight how implicit visual propositions manifested by emotions in facial expressions might have a substantial effect on our trust in news.

Emotions recognition from human facial images based on fast learning network

Systems of facial emotion recognition have witnessed a high significance in the research field. The face emotions are based on human facial expressions which play a crucial role in silent communication. Machine learning algorithms have widely used in systems of human facial emotion detection from images. However, many systems suffer from low accuracy rate. In this paper, we present a system of facial emotion recognition by using images. In this proposed system, the samples of facial emotions have taken from Yale Face database. In addition, the histograms of oriented gradients (HOG) is used to extract features from the images. The extracted features will feed the fast learning network (FLN) algorithm for the classification part to identify the images of facial emotions with respect to their subjects. Many evaluation measurements have used to evaluate the performance of the proposed system. Based on the results of the experiment, the proposed system achieves 95.04% for the highest accuracy, 72.73% precision. Also, the results of the proposed system in terms of recall, f-measure, and G-main are all equal to 72.73%, respectively.

Negative interpretation bias connects to real-world daily affect: A multistudy approach.

Negative interpretation bias, the tendency to appraise ambiguous stimuli as threatening, shapes our emotional lives. Various laboratory tasks, which differ in stimuli features and task procedures, can quantify negative interpretation bias. However, it is unknown whether these tasks globally predict individual differences in real-world negative (NA) and positive (PA) affect. Across two studies, we tested whether different lab-based negative interpretation bias tasks predict daily NA and PA, measured via mobile phone across months. To quantify negative interpretation bias, Study 1 (N = 69) used a verbal, self-referential task whereas Study 2 (N = 110) used a perceptual, emotional image task with faces and scenes. Across tasks, negative interpretation bias was linked to heightened daily NA. However, only negative interpretation bias in response to ambiguous faces was related to decreased daily PA. These results illustrate the ecological validity of negative interpretation bias tasks and highlight converging and unique relationships between distinct tasks and naturalistic emotion. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

0055 Effect of acute sleep restriction on sleep physiology and emotional imagery memory in schizophrenia

Abstract Introduction Cognitive dysfunction in individuals with schizophrenia (SZ) represents a major determinant of poor functioning and may arise in part due to deficits in sleep quality that have been reported in in this population. In the current project, we investigate the effect of acute sleep restriction on a sleep-dependent emotional memory task. Methods Six individuals with medication-controlled SZ encoded consensus-rated emotionally valent and neutral pictures from the International Affective Picture System in the evening before 2 counterbalanced, polysomnographically-recorded nights containing either ad libitum sleep (~11pm to 7am) or sleep restriction (SR) to 4 hours between 3 and 7 am. Image recall occurred within 1 hour of wake time. We compared memory performance for negative emotional/neutral memory and PSG measures across the two sleep conditions with paired signed-rank tests. Results Mean age was 38 years and 50% were women. Acute sleep restriction resulted in reduced total sleep time (Adlib: median 372 min. (interquartile-range 53) vs SR: 209 (16) min., p=0.03), including reduction in duration of N1 (Ad lib: 44 min. (44) vs. SR: 29 min. (33), p=0.03), N2 (Ad lib: 158 min. (86) vs. SR: 60 min. (33), p=0.03) and REM sleep (Ad lib: 18 min. (5) vs. SR: 13 min. (13), p=0.03). We did not observe differences in N3 duration, sleep efficiency, and arousal index. Measures of breathing such as AHI4%, AHI3A, and SpO2 nadir were not significantly different between conditions. Compared to SR, the false alarm rate for emotional images was increased in ad lib sleep (n=6, p=0.03) with no difference in false alarm rate for neutral images (p=0.19). Correct rejection rate for emotional images was increased in SR compared to ad lib sleep (p=0.03) with no difference in neutral images (p=0.19). No other change was observed in accuracy of recall for emotional or neutral, miss rate for emotional or neutral and d-prime for emotional or neutral images. Conclusion In subjects with SZ, unrestricted sleep was associated with a greater false alarm rate for emotional, but not neutral scenes, suggesting a deficit in veridical memory or generalization of emotionally encoded information. Support (if any) R21MH126357, R01AG066870, R01AG056682, K24HL109156, AASMF Focus award/AARG-D

A pilot study of closed-loop neuromodulation for treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder

The neurophysiological mechanisms in the human amygdala that underlie post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remain poorly understood. In a first-of-its-kind pilot study, we recorded intracranial electroencephalographic data longitudinally (over one year) in two male individuals with amygdala electrodes implanted for the management of treatment-resistant PTSD (TR-PTSD) under clinical trial NCT04152993. To determine electrophysiological signatures related to emotionally aversive and clinically relevant states (trial primary endpoint), we characterized neural activity during unpleasant portions of three separate paradigms (negative emotional image viewing, listening to recordings of participant-specific trauma-related memories, and at-home-periods of symptom exacerbation). We found selective increases in amygdala theta (5–9 Hz) bandpower across all three negative experiences. Subsequent use of elevations in low-frequency amygdala bandpower as a trigger for closed-loop neuromodulation led to significant reductions in TR-PTSD symptoms (trial secondary endpoint) following one year of treatment as well as reductions in aversive-related amygdala theta activity. Altogether, our findings provide early evidence that elevated amygdala theta activity across a range of negative-related behavioral states may be a promising target for future closed-loop neuromodulation therapies in PTSD.

Differential effects of acute exercise on emotional memory in men and women.

Exercise may change emotional memory, which is associated with the induction of mental disorders such as depression and anxiety. This effect of exercise may be influenced by exercise-induced cortisol release. Depending on sex, cortisol exerts differential effects on emotional memory consolidation. However, whether acute exercise and exercise-induced cortisol release have sex-dependent effects on emotional memory has not been established. Therefore, first, we aimed to determine the effects of acute exercise on emotional memory, separately for men and women, in a within-subjects design. Second, we aimed to examine whether the effects of acute exercise on emotional memory are related to the effects of exercise-induced cortisol release, separately for men and women. Sixteen healthy men and 15 healthy women were presented with positive and negative emotional images, followed by either rest or a vigorous-intensity cycling exercise condition using a within-subjects design on separate days. Salivary cortisol was measured before presenting the emotional images presentation and 20 min after each intervention. Emotional memory was assessed two days later. Vigorous-intensity exercise decreased emotional memory in women, whereas there was no change in men after rest or exercise. Cortisol levels increased after exercise intervention in both men and women, although there was no association between cortisol levels and emotional memory. These findings demonstrate that the effect of a single bout of vigorous-intensity exercise on emotional memory differs between men and women and is associated with decreased emotional memory in women.

Facial expression generation based on variational AutoEncoder network and cloud computing

With the rapid development of portable terminal devices, such as smartphones, the development of expression generation technology makes the emotional communication between people in social networks more rich and diverse. However, there are still great challenges in deploying deep networks on mobile phones with limited resources. Moreover, the muscle movement of the face produces different facial expressions. To this end, this paper proposes an efficient emotion image generation framework based on Transformer and variational auto‐encoders (VAE) on the cloud platform. Specifically, we collect human face which is further transferred to the service. To exploit connections between muscles and expressions, we introduce the multi‐head attention mechanism to construct Transformer. To generate different emotional images, we design a novel emotion generation model named Transformer‐embedded VAE (TEVAE). All the experimental results show that the proposed TEVAE obtains higher performance in emotion image generation tasks compared to VAE.

Emocolor: An assistant design method for emotional color matching based on semantics and images

AbstractMuch research has been done on the relationship between emotions and colors, and many color scheme recommendation tools have been developed. These tools can often help recommend a suitable color scheme to express a certain emotion, but it is still difficult to design satisfying schemes based on such recommendations. In this study, based on the Color Scheme Bible, Compact Edition, we developed Emocolor, which allows professionals to generate a large number of color schemes based on emotional words or emotional images. It is also used to iteratively optimize the generated color schemes based on an interactive genetic algorithm to find the color scheme design that best matches the user's emotion. Through the evaluation of tram color schemes based on emotional words, Emocolor can effectively generate tram color schemes that match users’ emotions. It can also effectively transfer the emotion of an image with a single dominant color to a tram color scheme. In short, Emocolor can help professionals describe the relationship between emotion and color in a more accurate way and design emotional color schemes. Emocolor can be applied in advertising design, product design, interior design, and other fields.

한류드라마의 특성이 MICE 목적지 이미지 속성과 방문의도에 미치는 영향

Popular culture such as TV dramas, movies, and music in Korea is in the spotlight even in the United States and Europe, beyond Asia and the Middle East. The Korean Wave, which is so enthusiastic around the world, is raising the value of Korea's national brand and bringing about positive economic effects. Cognitive image is an evaluation of the functional elements of tourism itself, and all stimuli from the object mean the knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, etc. of the individual, and emotional tourism image refers to subjective thoughts, feelings, and attachment. In addition, tourism images are divided into cognitive images that mean knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes that an individual has, and emotional images that focus on individual emotions that speak subjective thoughts, feelings, and attachments. This study attempts a different approach from other MICE-related studies so far to focus on the characteristics of dramas and the cognitive and emotional attributes of MICE destination images. The MICE industry has entered a new phase through various changes, and research on MICE and destination can play an important role in a practical perspective. For the empirical analysis of this study, a survey was conducted on general college students who had experience watching Korean Wave dramas online. Statistical analysis was conducted on 208 effective samples among questionnaires collected online in April and May 2021. As a result of analyzing with the structural equation model using the SPSS and Smart PLS 3.0 statistical programs, the characteristics of Hallyu dramas were classified into three factors, subject characteristics, production characteristics, and actor characteristics, and MICE visit the image attributes were classified into two factors. As a result of hypothesis verification, it was found that among the characteristics of Korean Wave dramas, subject characteristics, production characteristics, and actor characteristics all affect cognitive properties. On the other hand, it was found that subject characteristics and actor characteristics influenced emotional characteristics. In addition, it was investigated that both cognitive and emotional attributes, which are attributes of MICE visit the image, had a significant effect on visit intention. According to these research results, exhibition participants provide cognitive and emotional images to grasp the psychology of college students through the characteristics of Korean Wave dramas, and accordingly, understanding the MICE visit the image of college students will have a certain effect on their intention to visit. This study attempts a different approach from other MICE-related studies so far to focus on the characteristics of dramas and the cognitive and emotional attributes of MICE destination images. The MICE industry has entered a new phase through various changes, and research on MICE and destination can play an important role in a practical perspective

2022년 팬톤컬러를 적용한 메타휴먼 메이크업 작품연구

Makeup is an act of harmonic coloration. It is used as a tool to deliver a visual image as an emotional image with colors and expressed in diverse forms. Therefore, this study proposed color palettes to use the pantone colors of the year 2022. A total of four different palettes were applied: natural color palette, complementary color palette, delightful color palette, neutral color palette. Then, four different makeups were created through the next-generation MetaHuman Creator. Specifically, this study proposed a new vision on diverse academic studies by expressing makeup design with pantone colors through digital software from 2D to 3D. Based on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and metaverse technologies in the hyper-connected era, new digital humans have emerged. Converting digital humans into avatars, new occupations were created in clothing/accessory design, makeup and hairstyling. It is anticipated that the growth of such digital human technologies would generate values in makeup and offers those majoring in makeup an opportunity to expand their field of work in business.

Effects of emotional congruency and task complexity on decision-making.

The heuristic approach to decision-making holds that the selection process becomes more efficient when part of the information available is ignored. One element involved in selecting information is emotional valence. If emotional congruency is related to simplified decision-making strategies, then the interaction of this factor with task complexity should exist. The present study explored how factors of this nature influence decision-making efficiency. We hypothesized that emotional congruency would have a positive effect on task execution and that the magnitude of that effect would increase with greater task complexity because in that condition the amount of information to be processed is greater, meaning that a heuristic approach to the problem would be more efficient. We design a decision in browser decision-making task in which participants had to select emotional images to gain points. Depending on the correlation between emotional valence and in-task image value, we defined three emotional congruency conditions: direct, null, and inverse. Our results show that distinct types of emotional congruency have differential effects on behavior. While direct congruency-enhanced overall decision-making performance, inverse congruency interacted with task complexity to modify the pace at which task feedback affected behavior.