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01-05-2012 | Original Article

The motor side of emotions: investigating the relationship between hemispheres, motor reactions and emotional stimuli

Auteurs: Cigdem Önal-Hartmann, Paul Pauli, Sebastian Ocklenburg, Onur Güntürkün

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 3/2012

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to analyze if the left hemisphere preferentially controls flexion responses toward positive stimuli, while the right hemisphere is specialized toward extensor responses to negative pictures. To this end, right-handed subjects had to pull or push a joystick subsequent to seeing a positive or a negative stimulus in their left or right hemifield. Flexion responses were faster for positive stimuli, while negative stimuli were associated with faster extensions responses. Overall, performance was fastest when emotional stimuli were presented to the left visual hemifield. This right hemisphere superiority was especially clear for negative stimuli, while reaction times toward positive pictures showed no hemispheric difference. We did not find any interaction between hemifield and response type. Neither was there a triple interaction between valence, hemifield and response type. We suppose that response dichotomies in humans are not as tightly linked to a hemisphere- and valence-bound reaction type as previously assumed.

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The numbers of IAPS pictures used were as follows. Positive: 2040, 2050, 2057, 2058, 2070, 2071, 2080, 2260, 2660, 1710, 1440, 1441, 2150, 1920, 2091, 2332, 2311, 2345, 2344, 2153, 4607, 4608, 4643, 4652, 4656, 4658, 4659, 4660, 4680, 4670, 4676, 4677, 4681, 4683, 4687, 4689, 4694, 4695, 4800 and 4810; negative: 6555, 6200, 6244, 6213, 6250, 6550, 6300, 6570.1, 6510, 6230, 6212, 6540, 2811, 6560, 6313, 6350, 1930, 1300, 1301, 2120, 3000, 3010, 9435, 6021, 6022, 3016, 3062, 9433, 2800, 3069, 3005.1, 3015, 3063, 1113, 1120, 1201, 1052, 1050, 1111 and 2095.

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Titel: The motor side of emotions: investigating the relationship between hemispheres, motor reactions and emotional stimuli
Auteurs: Cigdem Önal-Hartmann
Paul Pauli
Sebastian Ocklenburg
Onur Güntürkün
Publicatiedatum: 01-05-2012
Uitgeverij: Springer-Verlag
Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research / Uitgave 3/2012
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-011-0337-4

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