Increasing associative plasticity in temporo-occipital back-projections improves visual perception of emotions

S Borgomaneri, M Zanon, P Di Luzio… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) is a critical node in a network specialized for
perceiving emotional facial expressions that is reciprocally connected with early visual …

Linking Affective and Hearing Sciences—Affective Audiology

M Zhang, GJ Siegle - Trends in Hearing, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
A growing number of health-related sciences, including audiology, have increasingly
recognized the importance of affective phenomena. However, in audiology, affective …

Should perception of emotions be classified according to threat detection rather than emotional valence? An updated meta-analysis for a whole-brain atlas of …

S Lukito, L Fortea, F Groppi, KZ Wykret, E Tosi… - Journal of Psychiatry and …, 2023 - jpn.ca
Background: Human navigation of social interactions relies on the processing of emotion on
faces. This meta-analysis aimed to produce an updated brain atlas of emotional face …

Memory biases in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment. A systematic review and metanalysis.

D De Vita, L Sagliano, L Trojano - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Several studies demonstrated that individuals are more likely to remember emotional than
neutral information; this phenomenon is known as emotional enhancement of memory …

[HTML][HTML] Subcortical contributions to salience network functioning during negative emotional processing

S Ince, T Steward, BJ Harrison, AJ Jamieson… - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
Core regions of the salience network (SN), including the anterior insula (aINS) and dorsal
anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), coordinate rapid adaptive changes in attentional and …

Representation of conspecific vocalizations in amygdala of awake marmosets

G Jia, S Bai, Y Lin, X Wang, L Zhu, C Lyu… - National Science …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Human speech and animal vocalizations are important for social communication and animal
survival. Neurons in the auditory pathway are responsive to a range of sounds, from …

Does the emotional modulation of visual experience entail the cognitive penetrability of early vision?

A Raftopoulos - Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2023 - Springer
Empirical research suggests that motive states modulate perception affecting perceptual
processing either directly, or indirectly through the modulation of spatial attention. The …

Neural processing of lateralised task-irrelevant fearful faces under different awareness conditions

Z Qiu, J Zhang, AJ Pegna - Consciousness and Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
The neural fate of task-irrelevant emotional faces under different awareness conditions is
poorly understood. Here, we examined the electrophysiological activity during an …

It's who, not what that matters: Personal relevance and early face processing

M Bayer, T Johnstone, I Dziobek - Social Cognitive and Affective …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The faces of our friends and loved ones are among the most pervasive and important social
stimuli we encounter in our everyday lives. We employed electroencephalography to …

Hemodynamic correlates of emotion regulation in frontal lobe epilepsy patients and healthy participants

A Benzait, V Krenz, M Wegrzyn, A Doll… - Human Brain …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to regulate emotions is indispensable for maintaining psychological health. It
heavily relies on frontal lobe functions which are disrupted in frontal lobe epilepsy …