Search for dissertations about: "affective responses"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 43 swedish dissertations containing the words affective responses.

  2. 6. Pain, Touch, and Decision Making : Behavioral and Brain Responses to Affective Somatosensory Stimulation

    Author : Lina Koppel; India Morrison; Daniel Västfjäll; Gustav Tinghög; Johannes Haushofer; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Stimulation of sensory nerves can give rise to powerful affective experiences. Noxious stimuli can give rise to pain, an unpleasant experience which, in turn, causes suffering and constitutes a major societal burden. Touch, on the other hand, can feel pleasant and plays an important role in social relationships and well-being. READ MORE

  4. 7. Machine learning for identification of brain activity patterns with applications in gentle touch processing

    Author : Malin Björnsdotter Åberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : Somatosensory; Machine learning; Pattern recognition; fMRI; Support vector machines; Neuroscience; Brain; BOLD; Signal processing; Artificial intelligence; Touch; Human; Unmyelinated; Sensory; Affective;

    Abstract : Since the first mention of artificial intelligence in the 1950s, the field of machine learning has provided increasingly appealing tools for recognition of otherwise unintelligible pattern representations in complex data structures. Human brain activity, acquired using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), is a prime example of such complex data where the utility of pattern recognition has been demonstrated in a wide range of studies recently (Haynes et al. READ MORE

  5. 8. Processing Asymmetries of Emotionally Valenced Stimuli

    Author : Mats Dahl; Institutionen för psykologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology; recollective experience; remember-know; memory; encoding; processing asymmetries; emotional words; emotional faces; affective pictures; emotion; affective information; Psykologi;

    Abstract : The central phenomenon investigated concerns the valence-based process asymmetry found in several earlier studies (e.g. Pratto & John, 1991; Taylor, 1991), where negative stimuli seem to initiate more thorough processing than positive stimuli. This finding was consistent in the three empirical studies forming this dissertation. READ MORE

  6. 9. Avhandling / Av_handling (Dissertation / Through_action)

    Author : Malin Arnell; Anna Koch; Hanna Hallgren; Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio; Stockholms konstnärliga högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; duration space-time-language matter ; knowledge production tacit; embodied; experiential ; performance art body art; live art; happenings ; choreography diffractive methods and techniques ; performativity human and non-human agentiality ; embodiment vulnerability; intimacy; force; power ; participation mutual co-constitutiveness ; invitation contractual engagement and accountability ; environment void; fullness ; embodied affinities human and more-than-human ; orientation; posthumanities; agential realism; feminism; artistic research; expositional strategies; enactment re-enactments ; live dissertation through live act ion s ; documentation affective; embodied ; Hannah Arendt; Karen Barad; Gina Pane; YES! Association Föreningen JA!; Duration; Koreografi; Kunskapsproduktion; Performativ konst; Förkroppsligande; Delaktighet; Invitation; Konstnärlig forskning...; Performativa och mediala praktiker; Performative and media based practices; duration space-time-language matter ; knowledge production tacit; embodied; experiential ; performance art body art; live art; happenings ; choreography diffractive methods and techniques ; performativity human and non-human agentiality ; embodiment vulnerability; intimacy; force; power ; participation mutual co-constitutiveness ; invitation contractual engagement and accountability ; environment void; fullness ; embodied affinities human and more-than-human ; orientation; posthumanities; agential realism; feminism; artistic research; expositional strategies; enactment re-enactments ; live dissertation through live act ion s ; documentation affective; embodied ; Hannah Arendt; Karen Barad; Gina Pane; YES! Association Föreningen JA!;

    Abstract : If we are being-of-the-world, how can we ever avoid participation? From this question Avhandling / Av_handling (Dissertation / Through_ action) unfolds. It invites to engage in an ongoing continuum of entanglements, where the moment of connection is unavoidable. READ MORE

  7. 10. Whores, hijabs and heart emojis : Affective explorations of aggression against girls online

    Author : Kim R. Sylwander; Lucas Gottzén; Linn Sandberg; Ringrose Jessica; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; girls; youth; online aggression; online hate; sexualized aggression; cyberbullying; netnography; social media; racialization; resistance; youth cultural studies; child and youth studies; affect theory; Deleuze and Guattari; new materialism; internet studies; barn- och ungdomsvetenskap; Child and Youth Studies;

    Abstract : This netnography studies the interactions of 150 interconnected users aged between 11 and 15 years old on a popular social networking site (SNS) among youth in Sweden. More specifically, the thesis explores articulations of and responses to aggression that target young girls online. READ MORE