Branches Book

BRANCHES

Buzzwords- Early Cortical Responses to Emotional Words during Reading. Association for Psychological Science. 2007. http://www.universitaetbielefeld.de/psychologie/personen/ae0 2/KisslerPDFs/KisslerPsySciEmoWords2007.pdf

Paltoglou, Georgios, Mathias Theunis, and Arvid Kappas. Predicting Emotional Response to Long Informal Text. Research report no.

10.1109/T-AFFC.2012.26. IEEE Xplore. 2013. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6261308/.

Protection of Human Subjects, 45 C.F.R. 46 (2009). Accessed December 11, 2016. http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and- policy/regulations/45-cfr-46/index.html. Ward, R.D., and P.H. Marsden. Physiological Responses to Different WEB Page Designs. Int. J. Human-Computer Studies 59.2002. http://www- labs.iro.umontreal.ca/~blanchae/papers/physiologie/Physiological %20responses%20to%20web%20pages%20designs.pdf My passion for science began at an early age. Every night at dinner, my parents and I would discuss questions from the day. This inquisitive tradition fostered my observational habits, and soon I began noticing interesting minutia every day. As these observations became more complex, so did their answers. I discovered science as a means of answering these questions. While my understanding of science has grown and changed (and is now a likely career path), my appreciation of its power, its ability to answer my questions, remains. When given the opportunity to conduct an independent year-long project in literature, I immediately knew that I had to somehow integrate science. Investigating Neuropsychological Affective Responses to Literature underwent many iterations before I settled on its final form. Initially, I wanted to analyze various pieces of literature using Digital Humanities to determine the behavior of textual emotional stimuli. These emotional analyses were developed in ancient Greece, but once learning that no such analysis existed for the English language, I revised the experiment. Instead of analyzing the text, I would observe the readers’ neurological (emotional) response to various genres of literature. Author’s Statement: Dylan Vecchione

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