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Affective Facial Expression Processing via Simulation: A Probabilistic Model

open access: yes, 2014
Understanding the mental state of other people is an important skill for intelligent agents and robots to operate within social environments. However, the mental processes involved in `mind-reading' are complex.
Boccignone, Giuseppe   +3 more
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Enkinaesthesia: proto-moral value in action-enquiry and interaction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
It is now generally accepted that human beings are naturally, possibly even essentially, intersubjective. This chapter offers a robust defence of an enhanced and extended intersubjectivity, criticising the paucity of individuating notions of agency and ...
Stuart, Susan A.J.
core   +1 more source

Motherhood and theory of mind: increased activation in affective theory of mind and emotion processing areas

open access: yes, 2021
There is growing evidence that parenthood changes how people face the specific needs and requests of infants and children, especially their own. However, little is known about the influence of parenthood on theory of mind, the capacity to infer mental and affective states of others and derive action predictions based on these states. It is also unclear
Irene Sophia Plank   +4 more
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Decision-Making: A Neuroeconomic Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This article introduces and discusses from a philosophical point of view the nascent field of neuroeconomics, which is the study of neural mechanisms involved in decision-making and their economic significance.
Hardy-Vallee, Benoit
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Mindful Tutors, Embodied Writers: Positioning Mindfulness Meditation as a Writing Strategy to Optimize Cognitive Load and Potentialize Writing Center Tutors' Supportive Roles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In this article, I examine the potential that mindfulness meditation has to re-frame and expand the affective, supportive roles of writing center tutors.
Johnson, Sarah
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Features of Social Cognition in Late Adulthood

open access: yesСоциальная психология и общество, 2015
The paper presents outcomes of researches on the central component of social cognition — theory of mind in late adulthood. The outcomes show that, in normal aging, in advanced adulthood (55—74 years) as well as in old age (75—90 years) there are several ...
Melehin A.I., Sergienko E.A.
doaj   +1 more source

Designing gestures for affective input: an analysis of shape, effort and valence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
We discuss a user-centered approach to incorporating affective expressions in interactive applications, and argue for a design that addresses both body and mind. In particular, we have studied the problem of finding a set of affective gestures.
Fagerberg, Petra   +2 more
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Comparing the neural correlates of affective and cognitive theory of mind using fMRI: Involvement of the basal ganglia in affective theory of mind

open access: yesAdvances in Cognitive Psychology, 2013
Theory of Mind (ToM) is the ability to infer other people's mental states like intentions or desires. ToM can be differentiated into affective (i.e., recognizing the feelings of another person) and cognitive (i.e., inferring the mental state of the counterpart) subcomponents.
Bodden, Maren E.   +8 more
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The role of executive functions in older adults’ affective theory of mind

open access: yesArchives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 2021
Executive function (EF) has three subsystems: inhibition, updating, and shifting. Of these three, only inhibition is considered to be involved in affective theory of mind (ToM). This study investigated whether inhibition remains the sole driver for affective ToM in the three EF subsystems in older adults as well as in young people without functional ...
Yuki, Otsuka   +3 more
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The Three Final Doctrines of Spinoza: Intuition, Amor Dei, the Eternity of the Mind

open access: yesProfil, 2020
The study deals with the matter of three of the most puzzling doctrines of Baruch Spinoza’s system, the so-called ‘final doctrines’, which are intuitive knowledge, intellectual love of God, and the eternity of the (human) mind.
Michaela Petrufová Joppová
doaj   +1 more source

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