David Peeters,Siebe Bluijs
David Peeters
The use of naturalistic stimuli in cognitive neuroscience experiments inspires and requires theoretical foundations that bring together different cognitive domains, such as emotion, language, and morality. By zooming in on the digital envir...
Degree of abstraction rather than ambiguity is crucial for driving mentalizing involvement commentary on "A-EM: a neurocognitive model for understanding mixed and ambiguous emotions and morality" [0.03%]
抽象化程度而非含糊其辞是驱动心理理论参与的重要因素——对“A-EM：一个理解混合和模糊情绪及道德的神经认知模型”的评论
Kris Baetens,Ning Ma
Kris Baetens
Willems (this issue) proposes a neurocognitive model with a central role allotted to ambiguity in perceived morality and emotion in driving involvement of reflective/mentalizing processes. We argue that abstractness of representation has mo...
Valeria A Pfeifer,Penny M Pexman
Valeria A Pfeifer
In this commentary we draw attention to a context involving mixed and ambiguous emotions: verbal irony. Irony is frequently used, evokes mixed emotional responses (e.g., criticism and amusement), and has been the focus of recent cognitive n...
Franziska Hartung
Franziska Hartung
Over the past decades, the emerging and ever-growing body of studies in empirical aesthetics has made one thing abundantly clear: our current models and conceptualizations of emotional experiences have outlived their usefulness. How do we g...
FengYing Lu,WenJing Yang,Jiang Qiu
FengYing Lu
It is important for mental health to be able to control unwanted intrusive memories. Previous studies suggest that middle frontal gyrus (MFG) down regulates pathways underlie the suppression of retrieval of general memories. However, the ne...
MA-EM: A neurocognitive model for understanding mixed and ambiguous emotions and morality [0.03%]
理解混合、模糊情绪和道德的神经认知模型MA-EM
Roel M Willems
Roel M Willems
Understanding emotions and moral intentions of other people is integral to being human. Humanities scholars have long recognized the complex and ambiguous nature of emotions and morality. People are rarely 'just' happy, or sad. Neither are ...
What does the hippocampus do during working-memory tasks? A cognitive-neuropsychological perspective [0.03%]
从认知神经心理学视角看海马在工作记忆任务中的作用
Roy P C Kessels,Heiko C Bergmann
Roy P C Kessels
In this commentary, we highlight the role of the hippocampus as a binding device that may explain its recruitment during associative working-memory paradigms. Furthermore, we argue that both functional neuroimaging research, as presented in...
Nathan S Rose,Chang-Mao Chao
Nathan S Rose
Working memory (WM) and long-term memory (LTM) tests have both overlapping and distinct neurocognitive processes. Hippocampal activity in fMRI studies-a hallmark of LTM-also occurs on WM tasks, typically during encoding or retrieval and som...
Chantal E Stern,Michael E Hasselmo
Chantal E Stern
The review by Slotnick is valuable for raising the important question of how much the hippocampal activity induced by novel stimuli is due to mechanisms for encoding into long-term memory, and how much is due to working memory. Slotnick's p...
Judith C Peters,Joel Reithler
Judith C Peters
Recent studies suggest the hippocampus is involved in working memory (WM). Slotnick (this issue) critically reviewed relevant fMRI findings and concludes WM 'does not activate the hippocampus.' We extend Slotnick's review by discussing obse...