Distinct neural activity associated with focused-attention meditation and loving-kindness meditation

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Effects of sad mood on facial emotion recognition in Chinese people

This study examined the influence of sad mood on the judgment of ambiguous facial emotion expressions among 47 healthy volunteers who had been induced to feel sad (n = 13), neutral (n = 15), or happy (n = 19) emotions by watching video clips. The findings suggest that when the targets were ambiguous, participants who were in a sad mood tended to classify them in the negative emotional categories rather than the positive emotional categories. Also, this observation indicates that emotion-specific negative bias in the judgment of facial expressions is associated with a sad mood. The finding argues against a general impairment in decoding facial expressions. Furthermore, the observed mood-congruent negative bias was best predicted by spatial perception. The findings of this study provide insights into the cognitive processes underlying the interpersonal difficulties experienced by people in a sad mood, which may be predisposing factors in the development of clinical depression. © 2007 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.link_to_subscribed_fulltex

Comprehension of presuppositions in school-age Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders

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Pyrexia of unknown origin and proteinuria: An enigma solved by renal biopsy

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Altered gray matter volumes in post-stroke depressive patients after subcortical stroke

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