“Shall I compare thee”: The neural basis of literary awareness, and its benefits to cognition

Cortex ◽

10.1016/j.cortex.2015.08.014 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 73 ◽

pp. 144-157 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Noreen O'Sullivan ◽

Philip Davis ◽

Josie Billington ◽

Victorina Gonzalez-Diaz ◽

Rhiannon Corcoran

Keyword(s):

Neural Basis ◽

Literary Awareness

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Neural Basis of Motor Control

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America ◽

10.1016/s1047-9651(18)30549-7 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 615-622 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Thomas Thach

Keyword(s):

Motor Control ◽

Neural Basis

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Neural Basis of Semantic Memory

10.1017/cbo9780511544965 ◽

2007 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

Semantic Memory ◽

Neural Basis

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Emotional Reactivity to Visual Content as Revealed by ERP Component Clustering

Journal of Psychophysiology ◽

10.1027/0269-8803/a000145 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

pp. 135-146 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Miroslaw Wyczesany ◽

Szczepan J. Grzybowski ◽

Jan Kaiser

Keyword(s):

Emotional Reactivity ◽

Brain Activity ◽

Affective State ◽

Occipital Lobe ◽

Stimulus Onset ◽

Emotional States ◽

Neural Basis ◽

Temporoparietal Junction ◽

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The Impact

Abstract. In the study, the neural basis of emotional reactivity was investigated. Reactivity was operationalized as the impact of emotional pictures on the self-reported ongoing affective state. It was used to divide the subjects into high- and low-responders groups. Independent sources of brain activity were identified, localized with the DIPFIT method, and clustered across subjects to analyse the visual evoked potentials to affective pictures. Four of the identified clusters revealed effects of reactivity. The earliest two started about 120 ms from the stimulus onset and were located in the occipital lobe and the right temporoparietal junction. Another two with a latency of 200 ms were found in the orbitofrontal and the right dorsolateral cortices. Additionally, differences in pre-stimulus alpha level over the visual cortex were observed between the groups. The attentional modulation of perceptual processes is proposed as an early source of emotional reactivity, which forms an automatic mechanism of affective control. The role of top-down processes in affective appraisal and, finally, the experience of ongoing emotional states is also discussed.

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