Movement latencies were shortened in congruent situations (e.g. the presentation of a happy face and combined with upward movements) and delayed in non-congruent situations.
Meanwhile, in the congruent situations item size, sum surface, density etc. will all be larger in the numerically larger set.
Although there has been much information published on communication of risk between patients and healthcare practitioners in healthcare situations, this research has focused predominantly on language-congruent situations.
This corresponds with the expectation that mental substitute of activation should be more sensitive to goal-congruent situations and experiences (positive and controlled).
We predict that: 1) language-discrepant situations will be characterised by communicative interactions that are both qualitatively and quantitatively poorer than language-congruent situations; and 2) these differences will be greater the lower the proficiency in the L2, and the more crucial the need for accurate communication of risk.
My happiness about my child being happy would therefore not be an emotional state that is more congruent to his situation.
If mirror neurons are indeed the primary underlying causal mechanisms for cognitively recognizing certain emotional states in others by looking at their facial expressions, then it is quite understandable how such an observation could also lead to the feeling of an emotion that is more congruent with the situation of the other; that is, to empathy in the affective sense.
For example, by manipulating the degree of semantic correspondence between odour-picture pairs, Gottfried and Dolan [37] revealed facilitation for semantically congruent versus incongruent situation.
Within the ray-finned fishes, our trees support the basal position of ostariophysans (carp, goldfish, and zebrafish), followed by the neoteleosts, salmonids, and smelt, a situation congruent with morphological [ 40], mitochondrial [ 35] and nuclear data [ 41].
