Autonomic specificity of basic emotions: Evidence from pattern classification and cluster analysis

Stephens, Chris; Christie, Israel C.; Friedman, Bruce H.

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2010.03.014

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“…It has to be taken into account that in our study only two physiological measures (HR and SCL) were taken, this can explain why we failed in detect more complex and differentiated response patterns for discrete emotions. Indeed, some studies (Kreibig 2010, for a review) have recently suggested that each discrete emotion would present a certain pattern of experience, physiology and behavior, congruent with the proposal of James at the end of the XIX century (James 1884;Mauss and Robinson 2009;Stephens et al 2010). Therefore, in order to investigate these specific patterns a combination of multiple cardiovascular, electrodermal and respiratory measures ought to be examined.…”

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Physiological Responses Induced by Emotion-Eliciting Films

Fernández

Pascual

Soler

et al. 2012

Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback

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Emotion-eliciting films are commonly used to evoke subjective emotional responses in experimental settings. The main aim of the present study was to investigate whether a set of film clips with discrete emotions were capable to elicit measurable objective physiological responses. The convergence between subjective and objective measures was evaluated. Finally, the effect of gender on emotional responses was investigated. A sample of 123 subjects participated in the study. Individuals were asked to view a set of emotional film clips capable to induce seven emotions: anger, fear, sadness, disgust, amusement, tenderness and neutral state. Skin conductance level (SCL), heart rate (HR) and subjective emotional responses were measured for each film clip. In comparison with neutral films, SCL was significantly increased after viewing fear films, and HR was also significantly incremented for anger and fear films. Physiological variations were associated with arousal measures indicating a convergence between subjective and objective reactions. Women appeared to display significantly greater SCL and HR responses for films inducing sadness. The findings suggest that physiological activation would be more easily induced by emotion-eliciting films that tap into emotions with higher subjective arousal such as anger and fear.

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Physiological Responses Induced by Emotion-Eliciting Films

Fernández

Pascual

Soler

et al. 2012

Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback

108

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“…As discussed, emotional processing is usually triggered by the unconscious and conscious perception of internal or external events, and by cognitive judgments [132,133]. It is associated with changes in body states (i.e., skeletal muscle activity, visceral organs, facial expressions) that are preparatory for adaptive behavioral responses [134][135][136][137]. These alterations can result in conscious feelings that imply a cognitive understanding of their conceptual emotional meaning.…”

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The Role of the Cerebellum in Unconscious and Conscious Processing of Emotions: A Review

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Abstract:Studies from the past three decades have demonstrated that there is cerebellar involvement in the emotional domain. Emotional processing in humans requires both unconscious and conscious mechanisms. A significant amount of evidence indicates that the cerebellum is one of the cerebral structures that subserve emotional processing, although conflicting data has been reported on its function in unconscious and conscious mechanisms. This review discusses the available clinical, neuroimaging, and neurophysiological data on this issue. We also propose a model in which the cerebellum acts as a mediator between the internal state and external environment for the unconscious and conscious levels of emotional processing.

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“…[104] Employing images, sounds, and videos for emotion elicitation is also motivated by affective tagging applications, which consist in automatically assigning tags to multimedia contents. [105,106] In a psychophysiological study of emotion induced by music and film stimuli, Stephens et al [107] replicated the finding of autonomic specific basic emotions and demonstrated that the phenomenon of autonomic nervous system (ANS) specificity of emotion was not a function of the emotion induction technique. In [108], the authors showed that the emotion assessment performance obtained using visual and auditory stimuli is similar.…”

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A survey of affective brain computer interfaces: principles, state-of-the-art, and challenges

Mühl

Allison

Nijholt

et al. 2014

Brain-Computer Interfaces

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Affective states, moods and emotions, are an integral part of human nature: they shape our thoughts, govern the behavior of the individual, and influence our interpersonal relationships. The last decades have seen a growing interest in the automatic detection of such states from voice, facial expression, and physiological signals, primarily with the goal of enhancing human-computer interaction with an affective component. With the advent of brain-computer interface research, the idea of affective brain-computer interfaces (aBCI), enabling affect detection from brain signals, arose. In this article, we set out to survey the field of neurophysiology-based affect detection. We outline possible applications of aBCI in a general taxonomy of brain-computer interface approaches and introduce the core concepts of affect and their neurophysiological fundamentals. We show that there is a growing body of literature that evidences the capabilities, but also the limitations and challenges of affect detection from neurophysiological activity

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Autonomic specificity of basic emotions: Evidence from pattern classification and cluster analysis

Cited by 163 publications

References 43 publications

Physiological Responses Induced by Emotion-Eliciting Films

Physiological Responses Induced by Emotion-Eliciting Films

The Role of the Cerebellum in Unconscious and Conscious Processing of Emotions: A Review

A survey of affective brain computer interfaces: principles, state-of-the-art, and challenges

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