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Matthew Moreno; Earl Woodruff – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
This present study examines the psycho-emotional and psychophysiological effects that variations in the tempo of background music have on learners who are completing reading comprehension tests while being monitored used multi-modal computer technology. Results of seventy-four (N = 74) participants indicated that listening to fast tempo music…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Students, Music, Educational Therapy
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Voon, Valerie; Brezing, Christina; Gallea, Cecile; Ameli, Rezvan; Roelofs, Karin; LaFrance, W. Curt, Jr.; Hallett, Mark – Brain, 2010
Conversion disorder is characterized by neurological signs and symptoms related to an underlying psychological issue. Amygdala activity to affective stimuli is well characterized in healthy volunteers with greater amygdala activity to both negative and positive stimuli relative to neutral stimuli, and greater activity to negative relative to…
Descriptors: Patients, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Diagnostic Tests
Sullivan, Edward A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1972
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Chemistry, Physiology, Psychoeducational Methods
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Otto, Michael W.; Leyro, Teresa M.; Christian, Kelly; Deveney, Christen M.; Reese, Hannah; Pollack, Mark H.; Orr, Scott P. – Behavior Modification, 2007
Studies using fear-conditioning paradigms have found that anxiety patients are more conditionable than individuals without these disorders, but these effects have been demonstrated inconsistently. It is unclear whether these findings have etiological significance or whether enhanced conditionability is linked only to certain anxiety…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Individual Characteristics, Depression (Psychology), Psychological Patterns
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Ellsworth, Phoebe C. – Psychological Review, 1994
The complex ideas of William James on emotion were oversimplified during his lifetime, with his emphasis on the interpretation of the stimulus largely overlooked. Damaging scientific consequences of this mischaracterization are described. (SLD)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Arousal Patterns, Emotional Experience, Emotional Response