The influence of ambient aroma on middle school students' academic emotions.

This study investigated the influence of ambient aroma on the academic emotions experienced by middle school students in a practical educational environment. The study was conducted with pre- and post-test experimental design upon subjects in three parallel classes (n = 109) in grade two of a junior school in China. These classes were randomly assigned to one of three experimental conditions (no aroma, daily aroma or aroma every other day).

Earthquake Trauma, Overgeneral Autobiographical Memory, and Depression Among Adolescent Survivors of the Wenchuan Earthquake.

Trauma has a profound impact on overgeneral autobiographical memory (OGM), which is a risk factor for depression. Violent earthquakes can cause tremendous trauma in survivors. We examined the relationship between earthquake trauma, OGM and depression in adolescent survivors of the Wenchuan earthquake in this study.

Object and spatial visualizers have different object-processing patterns: behavioral and ERP evidence.

Both behavioral and neurophysiological evidence shows the advantage of object visualizers in object-related tasks relative to spatial visualizers. It is still unclear, in which stage the advantage appears. In this study, a behavioral experiment revealed that spatial visualizers' performance decreased evidently from short delay to long delay in a high-load condition, but object visualizers performed stably.