Emotional system in complex cognitive activities of working memory: A literature review of its role.

Cognitive processing is needed to elicit emotional responses. At the same time, emotional responses modulate and guide cognition to enable adaptive responses to the environment. However, most empirical studies and theoretical models of cognitive functions have been investigated without taking into account emotion, which is considered interference that is counterproductive to the correct functioning of the cognitive system.

Support Vector Machines Trained with Evolutionary Algorithms Employing Kernel Adatron for Large Scale Classification of Protein Structures.

With the increasing power of computers, the amount of data that can be processed in small periods of time has grown exponentially, as has the importance of classifying large-scale data efficiently. Support vector machines have shown good results classifying large amounts of high-dimensional data, such as data generated by protein structure prediction, spam recognition, medical diagnosis, optical character recognition and text classification, etc. Most state of the art approaches for large-scale learning use traditional optimization methods, such as quadratic programming or gradient descent, which makes the use of evolutionary algorithms for training support vector machines an area to be explored.

Emotional content of stimuli improves visuospatial working memory.

Processing and storage in visuospatial working memory (VSWM) seem to depend on attention-based mechanisms. In order to explore the effect of attention-attractive stimuli, such as emotional faces on VSWM performance, ERPs were obtained from 20 young adults while reproducing spatial sequences of six facial (happy and neutral) and non-facial control stimuli in inverse order. Behavioral performances revealed that trials with happy facial expressions resulted in a significantly higher amount of correct responses.

[Cornual ectopic pregnancy].

This paper reports the case of a 16-year old patient, with menstrual delay of 9 weeks, with positive pregnancy test, who went to the hospital due to expulsion of organized material, as well as pain colic type in hypogastrium. It was carried out laparotomy, finding ectopic pregnancy in right horn, being carried out miometrial incision and trophoblast aspiration, with presence of multiple endometriosic focuses in later face of uterus. In later pregnancies, there are not studies about the solidity of the scar after the horn resection and uterine breaks have been described in the second and third trimester.

Visual processing in a facial emotional context: an ERP study.

Facial emotional processing can be bypassed when faces are task-irrelevant and attention is diverted, although this effect has not been examined when cognitive task occurs within a facial background. Event-related potential (ERP) measures were obtained to evaluate the influence of different irrelevant facial emotional contexts on a simultaneous "ear-size" detection task performance in five processing contexts: (1) neutral face, (2) happy face, (3) fearful face, (4) facial contour, and (5) non-facial context. Reaction times were longer when visual processing occurred in a facial context, regardless of its emotional content.