Some studies have found that excessive talking about problems can contribute to emotional difficulties, including anxiety and depression.
For other innately reinforcing stimuli, including some drugs of abuse, circuitry within the basolateral complex likely also contributes to emotional responses.
Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) procedures have been used to train individuals to interpret ambiguous information in a negative or benign direction and have provided evidence that negative biases causally contribute to emotional vulnerability.
Our laboratory has provided evidence of four primary quadrants (anterior posterior and left right cerebral hemispheres) contributing to emotional processing [34, 35, 36, 37, 38].
Blogs also contribute to emotional engagement by providing students with opportunities to express their feelings about learning and by encouraging positive attitudes about learning (Dos & Demir, 2013; Chu et al., 2012; Yang & Chang, 2012).
This may reflect a genetic predisposition for inflexible processing of affective stimuli, a mechanism possibly accounting for aspects of arousal and behavioral control that contribute to emotional dysregulation previously reported in met/met individuals.
Widely accepted pacemaker-accumulator models of time perception suggest that changes in arousal and attention have unique influences on temporal judgments and contribute to emotional distortions of time perception.
And a recent paper co-authored by Spencer appears to be the first to show that naps, and not just overnight sleep, contribute to emotional memory processing in children.
