The contralateral delay activity as a neural measure of visual working memory

R Luria, H Balaban, E Awh, EK Vogel - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2016 - Elsevier
The contralateral delay activity (CDA) is a negative slow wave sensitive to the number of
objects maintained in visual working memory (VWM). In recent years, a growing number of …

Visual working memory for faces and facial expressions as a useful “tool” for understanding social and affective cognition

F Gambarota, P Sessa - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Visual working memory (VWM) is one of the most investigated cognitive systems functioning
as a hub between low-and high-level processes. Remarkably, its role in human cognitive …

To believe or not to believe? How voice and accent information in speech alter listener impressions of trust

X Jiang, K Gossack-Keenan… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Our decision to believe what another person says can be influenced by vocally expressed
confidence in speech and by whether the speaker–listener are members of the same social …

An unpleasant emotional state reduces working memory capacity: Electrophysiological evidence

JSB Figueira, L Oliveira, MG Pereira… - Social Cognitive and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Emotional states can guide the actions and decisions we make in our everyday life through
their influence on cognitive processes such as working memory (WM). We investigated the …

Patients with anxiety disorders rely on bilateral dlPFC activation during verbal working memory

NL Balderston, E Flook, A Hsiung, J Liu… - Social cognitive and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
One of the hallmarks of anxiety disorders is impaired cognitive control, affecting working
memory (WM). The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) is critical for WM; however, it is still …

Impact of face masks and viewers' anxiety on ratings of first impressions from faces

K Guo, A Hare, CH Liu - Perception, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Face mask is now a common feature in our social environment. Although face covering
reduces our ability to recognize other's face identity and facial expressions, little is known …

The neural basis of and a common neural circuitry in different types of pro-social behavior

J Luo - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Pro-social behaviors are voluntary behaviors that benefit other people or society as a whole,
such as charitable donations, cooperation, trust, altruistic punishment, and fairness. These …

The impact of visual working memory capacity on the filtering efficiency of emotional face distractors

C Ye, Q Xu, Q Liu, F Cong, P Saariluoma… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Emotional faces can serve as distractors for visual working memory (VWM) tasks. An event-
related potential called contralateral delay activity (CDA) can measure the filtering efficiency …

Perceived trustworthiness shapes neural empathic responses toward others' pain

P Sessa, F Meconi - Neuropsychologia, 2015 - Elsevier
As might be expected, neural empathic responses toward someone in pain are shaped by
the affective/social relationship between the observer and the suffering person. Brain activity …

Neural measures of the causal role of observers' facial mimicry on visual working memory for facial expressions

P Sessa, A Schiano Lomoriello… - Social cognitive and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Simulation models of facial expressions propose that sensorimotor regions may increase the
clarity of facial expressions representations in extrastriate areas. We monitored the event …