Emotional Categorization: Individual Emotional Differences and Laterality Effects in Healthy and Persons with Multiple Sclerosis (Report‪)‬

1. EMOTIONAL CATEGORIZATION: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND LATERALITY EFFECTS There are numerous ways in which emotions and affective processes shape and organize cognitive activities. Some studies demonstrated creative, explorative behavior under positive mood and careful, error-avoidance behavior for negative mood (e.g. [1-5]; see also [6]). It has been also reported that emotional states can enhance high-level cognitive control [7], focus attentional resources, influencing encoding and organization of new information [8], and facilitating access to information previously acquired [9,10]. The influence of mental representation of affective reactions on the accessibility of concept and knowledge has been also suggested [11,6].