Threatening, friendly, and neutral faces were presented to test the hypothesis of the
facilitated perceptual processing of threatening faces. Dense sensor event-related brain …

Anxiety can boost the detection of potential threats in many ways. There is evidence that one
and the same facial expression can be perceived differently depending on whether it is seen …

Background Individuals with anxiety disorders exhibit a 'vigilance-avoidance'pattern of
attention to threatening stimuli when threatening and neutral stimuli are presented …

The defensive reaction to threats consists of two components: non-specific physiological
arousal and specific attentional prioritization of the threatening stimulus, both of which are …

Here we show inverse fMRI activation patterns in amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex
(mPFC) depending upon whether subjects interpreted surprised facial expressions …

The threat capture hypothesis states that threatening stimuli are automatically processed
with higher priority than non-threatening stimuli, irrespective of observer intentions or focus …

Little is known about the network of brain regions activated prior to explicit awareness of
emotionally salient social stimuli. We investigated this in a functional magnetic resonance …

In social environments, multiple sensory channels are simultaneously engaged in the
service of communication. In this experiment, we were concerned with defining the neuronal …

We recently demonstrated a functional relationship between fMRI responses within the
amygdala and the medial prefrontal cortex based upon whether subjects interpreted …

Responses to threat-related stimuli are influenced by conscious and unconscious
processes, but the neural systems underlying these processes and their relationship to …