Meanings of emotional valence in English

Participants rated the stimuli according to emotional valence and intensity of emotion.

After an old-new judgment, participants provided emotional valence and intensity ratings of the clips.

An impact of emotional valence onto the strength and topography of the functional links of the second type was found.

In this group, no significant influence of emotional valence of visual stimuli on the accuracy of WM task performance was found.

Results: Controls showed improved performance in the categorization of disgusted faces after all types of odour stimulation irrespective of the emotional valence.

Further, we aimed to examine whether BPD patients were able to suppress stimuli with negative emotional valence as well as healthy control participants could.

In spite of the compelling evidence for right-hemispheric specialization, some data point to the possibility of differential hemispheric involvement as a function of emotional valence.

While many of these elements can generate comedic situations, much of their emotional valence depends largely on the interpretation of the players at the table.

The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that activation of the amygdala is related to the relevance of the emotional valence of stimuli.

Brain activations during the individual estimations of 'high' against 'low' risk, and of negative versus neutral and positive emotional valences were analyzed.