Rapid and accurate detection of threat is adaptive. Yet, threat-related attentional biases,
including hypervigilance, avoidance, and attentional disengagement delays, may contribute …

In everyday life, the motivational value of faces is bound to the contexts in which faces are
perceived. Electrophysiological studies have demonstrated that inherent negatively valent …

Introduction: Individuals with test anxiety [ie, high test anxiety (HTA)] always treat
tests/examinations as a potential threat. This cognitive mode impairs these individuals' …

Social threat detection is important in everyday life. Studies of cortical activity have shown
that event-related potentials (ERPs) of motivated attention are modulated during fear …

EEG studies suggest that the emotional content of visual stimuli is processed rapidly. In
particular, the C1 component, which occurs up to 100 ms after stimulus onset and likely …

The role of distinct cortical regions in guiding social orienting needs further investigation.
Our aim was to explore the contribution of the frontal eye field (FEF) in early orienting of …

Social information processing is a critical mechanism underlying children's socio-emotional
development. Central to this process are patterns of activation associated with one of our …

Visual suppression by single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (sTMS) has been
attributed to interruptions of either feedforward or feedback activity in the visual stream. The …

There has been no consistent conclusion concerning whether auditory spatial attention or
visual spatial attention could be modulated by auditory aversive cues. In three experiments …

Difficulty managing the demands of work and nonwork roles (often referred to in terms of
managing balance) can be detrimental to psychological wellbeing and contribute to …