In contrast, our reliance on a continuous rating scale in the current study necessitated estimation of the effects of non-affective cues across a broad range of affect, even though sensitivity to some affective cues appeared in prior work to be unrelated to values of non-affective cues.
On affective ratings, testosterone increased sensitivity to both obtained and counterfactual outcomes.
The possible effect of bright light to experimentally evoke an affective state and somatosensory sensitivity changes has not been assessed before.
This study aimed to assess the influence of three controlled conditioning stimuli (visual, auditory and gustatory stimuli and combined stimuli) on affective state and thermal sensitivity in healthy human participants.
At the electrophysiological level, alexithymia scores correlated negatively with amplitudes of the N400, an ERP component indicative of individual sensitivity to affective incongruence.
Given the difficulty to identify emotions in alexithymia, we further hypothesized a reduced sensitivity to affective mismatches in alexithymia, reflected in diminished N400 amplitudes in response to affectively incongruent compared to congruent conditions as a function of alexithymia.
Since such impairment during the conscious processing of emotional information may be dependent upon dysfunctions at earlier processing stages, the investigation of automatic sensitivity to affective stimuli is of great importance to understanding the emotion processing deficits individuals with alexithymia exhibit.
The WRAADDS has seven subscales: Attentional Difficulties, Hyperactivity/Restlessness, Temper, Affective Lability, Disorganization, Stress Sensitivity, and Impulsivity.
Such findings suggest that, in rodents, consolidation of affective learning displays a sensitivity to, and even dependency on, sleep (and REM in particular).
In a previous study by Leutgeb et al. (2009) adult females did not show therapy-related reductions in overall disgust sensitivity or affective ratings of disgust-relevant scenes.
