Elaina Bolinger

• PhD Neural and Behavioral Sciences
• PhD Student at University of Tübingen

Although investigation of the brains of criminals began quite early in the history of psychophysiological research, little is known about brain plasticity of offenders with psychopathy. Building on our preliminary study reporting successful brain self-regulation using slow cortical potential (SCP) neurofeedback in offenders with psychopathy, we inv...

Emotions have an important survival function. Vast amounts of research have demonstrated how affect-related changes in physiology promote survival by effecting short-term and long-term changes in adaptive behavior. However, if emotions truly serve such an inherent function, they should be pervasive across species and be established early in life. H...

Sleep benefits the long-term preservation of emotional memories, making them accessible even years after the emotional episode has occurred. However, whether sleep also influences the emotional response that gets elicited while retrieving such memories (e.g., by increasing autonomic activity) remains unclear. Here, we demonstrate that sleep fosters...

It is uncertain whether sleep preferentially consolidates emotional over neutral material. Some studies suggest that sleep enhances emotional memory (i.e., that there are large differences in strength of memory for valenced material compared to neutral material after a sleep-filled interval, but that this difference is smaller after a wake-filled i...

Sleep enhances memory for emotional experiences, but its influence on the emotional response associated with memories is elusive. Here, we compared the influence of nocturnal sleep on memory for negative and neutral pictures and the associated emotional response in 8-11-year-old children, i.e., an age group with heightened levels of emotional memor...

Introduction How does sleep influence the emotional components of memories? In a recent study in children, we demonstrated that cognitively influenced aspects of emotion, i.e. those which are subject to top-down control mechanisms (measured by the late positive potential [LPP] of the EEG), decreased after a night of sleep compared to a day of wake,...

Auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) have been successfully used in adults as well as in newborns to discriminate recall of longer-term and shorter-term memories. Specifically the Mismatch Response (MMR) to deviant stimuli of an oddball paradigm is larger if the deviant stimuli are highly familiar (i.e., retrieved from long-term memory) than if...

Individual classification accuracies, AUC-values, and F1-scores based on time domain EEG data of channels Cz, Pz, Cp1, Cp2, Cp4, and Cp5 obtained in 10-fold cross-validation. Columns indicate classes of respective binary classification problems (“−” unpleasant, “0” neutral, “+” pleasant). Classes are balanced with 40 instances each. Stars indicate...

Individual significance levels of classification at significance threshold α = 0.05 obtained by permutation tests for the performance measures accuracy, AUC-value, and F1-score based on time domain EEG data of channels Cz, Pz, Cp1, Cp2, Cp4, and Cp5 in 100 iterations. Columns indicate classes of respective binary classification problems (“−” unplea...

IADS-2 sound ids and respective valence/arousal values for each emotional category.

Scalp topography of electrode locations Fp1, Fp2, F3, F4, C3, C4, P3, P4, O1, O2, F7, F8, T7, T8, P7, P8, Fz, Cz, Pz, Tp9, Tp10, Fc1, Fc2, Cp1, Cp2, Fc5, Fc6, Cp5, and Cp6 all referenced to Fcz and grounded against Apz.

Event-related potentials averaged over all participants for unpleasant, neutral, and pleasant stimuli on electrodes Cp1 and Cp2 (A) as well as Cp5 and Cp6 (B). Gray horizontal bars depict significant differences between neutral and pleasant (light gray) or neutral and unpleasant responses (dark gray), (p < 0.05, FDR corrected Wilcoxon test). Differ...

Brain state classification for communication and control has been well established in the area of brain-computer interfaces over the last decades. Recently, the passive and automatic extraction of additional information regarding the psychological state of users from neurophysiological signals has gained increased attention in the interdisciplinary...

Impairment of an individual's ability to communicate is a major hurdle for active participation in education and social life. A lot of individuals with cerebral palsy (CP) have normal intelligence, however, due to their inability to communicate, they fall behind. Non-invasive electroencephalogram (EEG) based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have be...

Providing individuals with cerebral palsy (CP) tools to communicate and interact with the environment independently and reliably since childhood would allow for a more active participation in education and social life. We outline first steps towards the development of such a hybrid brain-computer interface-based (BCI) communication tool. http://ca...

In this paper, we present an experimental approach to design systems sensitive to emotion. We describe a system for the detection of emotional states based on physiological signals and an application use case utilizing the detected emotional state. The application is an emotion management system to be used for the support in the improvement of life...