Emotions and personality traits as high-level factors in visual attention: a review

K Kaspar, P König - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2012 - frontiersin.org
The visual sense has outstanding significance for human perception and behavior, and
visual attention plays a central role in the processing of the sensory input. Thereby, multiple …

Arousal-biased competition in perception and memory

M Mather, MR Sutherland - Perspectives on psychological …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Our everyday surroundings besiege us with information. The battle is for a share of our
limited attention and memory, with the brain selecting the winners and discarding the losers …

Increased neural sensitivity to self‐relevant stimuli in major depressive disorder

EM Benau, KE Hill, RA Atchley, AJ O'Hare… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The current research examined how individuals with depression process emotional, self‐
relevant stimuli. Across two studies, individuals with depression and healthy controls read …

EEG alpha band functional connectivity reveals distinct cortical dynamics for overt and covert emotional face processing

A Maffei, A Coccaro, F Jaspers-Fayer, J Goertzen… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Current knowledge regarding how the focus of our attention during face processing
influences neural responses largely comes from neuroimaging studies reporting on regional …

Neural mechanisms of overt attention shifts to emotional faces

L Kulke - Neuroscience, 2019 - Elsevier
Emotional faces draw attention and eye-movements towards them. However, the neural
mechanisms of attention have mainly been investigated during fixation, which is uncommon …

Disgust exposure and explicit emotional appraisal enhance the LPP in response to disgusted facial expressions

A Hartigan, A Richards - Social neuroscience, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The influence of prior exposure to disgusting imagery and the conscious appraisal of facial
expressions were examined in an event-related potential (ERP) experiment. Participants …

The impact of degraded vision on emotional perception of audiovisual stimuli: An event-related potential study

Y Li, J Wang, J Liang, C Zhu, Z Zhang, W Luo - Neuropsychologia, 2024 - Elsevier
Emotion recognition will be challenged for individuals when visual signals are degraded in
real-life scenarios. Recently, researchers have conducted many studies on the distinct …

Love flows downstream: mothers' and children's neural representation similarity in perceiving distress of self and family

TH Lee, Y Qu, EH Telzer - Social cognitive and affective …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The current study aimed to capture empathy processing in an interpersonal context. Mother–
adolescent dyads (N= 22) each completed an empathy task during fMRI, in which they …

Effective connectivity during visual processing is affected by emotional state

M Wyczesany, TS Ligeza, SJ Grzybowski - Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2015 - Springer
The limitations of our cognitive resources necessitate the selection of relevant information
from the incoming visual stream. This selection and prioritizing of stimuli allows the organism …

Adapting effects of emotional expression in anxiety: Evidence for an enhanced Late Positive Potential

A Richards, A Holmes, PJ Pell, EJ Bethell - Social neuroscience, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
An adaptation paradigm was used to investigate the influence of a previously experienced
visual context on the interpretation of ambiguous emotional expressions. Affective …