As we come into contact with the multiplicity of stories, emotions, contexts, we may be reminded of our own yearning to better connect in our own lives.
This blunted amygdala activity is aligned with an emotion context insensitivity (ECI) view which depicted flattened emotional responses typical of MDD [ 44].
Mothers who were higher in mindfulness generally activated more to the positive emotion context and less to the negative emotion context in perceptual and emotion processing areas, a pattern that may help to explain mindfulness-related differences in well-being.
Block-based emotion effects in the pupil may thus reflect increased arousal in the positive-emotion context relative to neutral emotion, rather than greater cognitive effort.
Nevertheless, a comparison of these two trial types indicated clear differences in behavioral performance, with the reward motivational context producing a robust increase in behavioral indices of proactive control, whereas the positive-emotion context resulted in a very weak or no effect.
Understanding the psychology of regret also helps to put our own thoughts and emotions into context.
The hippocampus puts our emotions into context.
Second, the abnormal prefrontal activation in response to an emotion-eliciting context may be second, since the amount of downregulation of positive emotion changes with depression severity, which does not necessarily disappear with symptom recovery or medication.
"Cake" offers a slightly wider array of emotions and contexts; "Still Alice," which stays limited to its overtly intellectual setting, packs it with unsubtle ironies.
The user engages with the service whenever cued by a particular emotion or context.
