The neuroscience of sadness: A multidisciplinary synthesis and collaborative review

Arias-López, Juan A.; Williams, Claire; Raghvani, Rashmi; Aghajani, Moji; Báez, Sandra; Belzung, Catherine; Booij, Linda; Busatto, Geraldo F.; Chiarella, Julian; Fu, Cynthia H.Y.; Ibáñez, Agustín; Liddell, Belinda J.; Lowe, Leroy; Penninx, Brenda W.J.H.; Rosa, Pedro; Kemp, Andrew H.

doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.01.006

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“…As mise-en-jeu enables the dissection of the characteristics of the mediated space, defining variables emerging from sound will provide a broader framework. Our study also suggests that definitions of mise-en-scène, such as those proposed by Richard Meran Barsam & Dave Monahan (2010) and Louis Giannetti (2014), should include sound in their listings of components, rather than leaving sound as a side remark of their texts. By consequence, our definition of the mise-en-jeu must also include sound as a component and with verifiable variables.…”

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Sound in the Mise-en-jeu: Conveying Meaning through Videogames’ Mediated Space

Ribeiro

Carvalhais

Cardoso³

2021

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Mise-en-jeu is the ontological equivalent of film’s mise-en-scène. As such, mise-en-jeu is a cinematographic language through which game designers communicate. It offers designers the ability to create and shape the aesthetics of videogames’ mediated space, the space of the cinematographic presentation.Our prior work on mise-en-jeu focused on the visual aspects of videogames. With that in mind, starting with an analysis of mise-en-scéne, this paper provides an understanding of how sound is relevant for meaning-making through mise-en-jeu. Since videogames make use of some of motion picture’s filming techniques, we first studied practitioners and academics in the history of film, approaching videogames afterwards.The results of this research show that sound in mise-en-jeu allows designers to provoke emotions in players and to assist those players in formulating meaning as intended by the designers. We also found that mise-en-jeu allows for the deconstruction and interpretation of the characteristics of various variables of videogames’ mediated space. Therefore it allows us to understand better the relationship between videogames as audiovisual artefacts and the potential meanings that emerge from playing them.

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Section: Future Workmentioning

confidence: 68%

Sound in the Mise-en-jeu: Conveying Meaning through Videogames’ Mediated Space

Ribeiro

Carvalhais

Cardoso³

2021

A|C

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“…While avoiding expressing their negative emotion to others, individuals comply with the perceived social pressure that sees a negative emotion as bad (Bastian et al, 2017 ). Both conditions have been intensively studied over the last decades, including from the neurological viewpoint (Goldin et al, 2008 ; Arias et al, 2020 ).…”

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Negative Perception of the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Dropping: Evidence From Twitter Posts

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The COVID-19 pandemic hit hard society, strongly affecting the emotions of the people and wellbeing. It is difficult to measure how the pandemic has affected the sentiment of the people, not to mention how people responded to the dramatic events that took place during the pandemic. This study contributes to this discussion by showing that the negative perception of the people of the COVID-19 pandemic is dropping. By negative perception, we mean the number of negative words the users of Twitter, a social media platform, employ in their online posts. Seen as aggregate, Twitter users are using less and less negative words as the pandemic evolves. The conclusion that the negative perception is dropping comes from a careful analysis we made in the contents of the COVID-19 Twitter chatter dataset, a comprehensive database accounting for more than 1 billion posts generated during the pandemic. We explore why the negativity of the people decreases, making connections with psychological traits such as psychophysical numbing, reappraisal, suppression, and resilience. In particular, we show that the negative perception decreased intensively when the vaccination campaign started in the USA, Canada, and the UK and has remained to decrease steadily since then. This finding led us to conclude that vaccination plays a key role in dropping the negativity of the people, thus promoting their psychological wellbeing.

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“…It plays a pivotal role in a variety of brain functions [86,87] that range from self-referential processing [88], autobiographical memory [89], and emotion [90] to social cognition and theory of mind [91], decision making [92], and working memory [93]. In view of these observations, it is plausible to construe the observed reduction of the flow of information among the components of this network among HIGH stress-susceptible individuals to highlight the potential impact of stress on their overall brain cognitive ability for handling various personal and social life events [1,94]. This interpretation finds further evidence in the stress-induced dampening of higher-level cognitive functions [14,16].…”

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Stress Changes the Resting-State Cortical Flow of Information from Distributed to Frontally Directed Patterns

Keshmiri

2020

Biology

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Despite converging evidence on the involvement of large-scale distributed brain networks in response to stress, the effect of stress on the components of these networks is less clear. Although some studies identify higher regional activities in response to stress, others observe an opposite effect in the similar regions. Studies based on synchronized activities and coactivation of these components also yield similar differing results. However, these differences are not necessarily contradictory once we observe the effect of stress on these functional networks in terms of the change in information processing capacity of their components. In the present study, we investigate the utility of such a shift in the analysis of the effect of stress on distributed cortical regions through quantification of the flow of information among them. For this purpose, we use the self-assessed responses of 216 individuals to stress-related questionnaires and systematically select 20 of them whose responses showed significantly higher and lower susceptibility to stress. We then use these 20 individuals’ resting-state multi-channel electroencephalography (EEG) recordings (both Eyes-Closed (EC) and Eyes-Open (EO) settings) and compute the distributed flow of information among their cortical regions using transfer entropy (TE). The contribution of the present study is three-fold. First, it identifies that the stress-susceptibility is characterized by the change in flow of information in fronto-parietal brain network. Second, it shows that these regions are distributed bi-hemispherically and are sufficient to significantly differentiate between the individuals with high versus low stress-susceptibility. Third, it verifies that the high stress-susceptibility is markedly associated with a higher parietal-to-frontal flow of information. These results provide further evidence for the viewpoint in which the brain’s modulation of information is not necessarily accompanied by the change in its regional activity. They further construe the effect of stress in terms of a disturbance that disrupts the flow of information among the brain’s distributed cortical regions. These observations, in turn, suggest that some of the differences in the previous findings perhaps reflect different aspects of impaired distributed brain information processing in response to stress. From a broader perspective, these results posit the use of TE as a potential diagnostic/prognostic tool in identification of the effect of stress on distributed brain networks that are involved in stress-response.

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The neuroscience of sadness: A multidisciplinary synthesis and collaborative review

Cited by 70 publications

References 419 publications

Sound in the Mise-en-jeu: Conveying Meaning through Videogames’ Mediated Space

Sound in the Mise-en-jeu: Conveying Meaning through Videogames’ Mediated Space

Negative Perception of the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Dropping: Evidence From Twitter Posts

Stress Changes the Resting-State Cortical Flow of Information from Distributed to Frontally Directed Patterns

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