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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"pleasant stimuli"”.
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Medial Prefrontal Cortex fNIRS Activity while Viewing Nature and Urban Scenes: The Search for Neurological Evidence of Nature's Transcendent Self-Diminishment Effect
… types. Six were entirely natural scenes (three pleasant and three unpleasant), and six were entirely urban scenes (three pleasant and three unpleasant). After each image block participants took a brief questionnaire to measure their level of immersion. A Flanker task was used to separate the …
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Appetitive Responding and the Female Menstrual Cycle: An Investigation into the Post-Auricular Reflex
… near ovulation female responses to sexual stimuli alter and cues of sex are more appealing. The post-auricular reflex (PAR) is a psychophysiological reaction that has been linked to motivation and reward, emotion, and appetitive responding. The PAR responds to pleasant stimuli, including …
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Exploring the Role of Implicit Cognition in the Context of Disgust in Individuals With and Without a Diagnosis of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
… to disengage from fearful or anxiety-inducing stimuli affected accuracy and response latency on the IRAP (n = 32). Minor changes to the IRAP procedure were not found to affect the D-IRAP score, whereas the extent to which an individual can disengage from anxiety-inducing stimuli was predictive …
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L’isolamento sociale riduce marcatamente la risposta dei neuroni dopaminergici mesocorticali agli stimoli piacevoli.
… arousal and behavioral activation in response to stimuli that provide a reward. This neural circuitry is also active in the early stages of learning and stabilization of addictive behavior due to substances abuse. Isolated animals have a different sensitivity to natural or artificial reinforcers. …