Processing the human face is at the focal point of most social interactions, yet this simple
perceptual task is difficult for individuals with autism, a population that spends limited …

We investigated the spatio-temporal dynamic of attentional bias towards fearful faces.
Twelve participants performed a covert spatial orienting task while recording visual event …

Human emotional expressions serve a crucial communicatory role allowing the rapid
transmission of valence information from one individual to another. This paper will review …

Humans are a diurnal species usually exposed to light while engaged in cognitive tasks.
Light not only guides performance on these tasks through vision but also exerts non-visual …

Long-term memories are influenced by the emotion experienced during learning as well as
by the emotion experienced during memory retrieval. The present article reviews the …

Although high-functioning individuals with autistic disorder (ie autism and Asperger
syndrome) are of normal intelligence, they have life-long abnormalities in social …

Results from recent event-related brain potential (ERP) studies investigating brain
processes involved in the detection and analysis of emotional facial expression are …

We examined whether consciously undetected fear signals engage a collateral brainstem
pathway to the amygdala and prefrontal cortex in the intact human brain, using functional …

Context Cannabis use can both increase and reduce anxiety in humans. The
neurophysiological substrates of these effects are unknown. Objective To investigate the …

Aberrant eye gaze mechanisms have been implicated in autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
Studies of eye movements in children with ASD reveal diminished eye gaze duration and …