Most of the previous research in the area of cognitive psychology or cognitive neuroscience
focused on studying negative emotions and argued that the negative emotional stimuli …

Background Existing literature suggests that age affects recognition of affective facial
expressions. Eye-tracking studies highlighted that age-related differences in recognition of …

Inattentional blindness (IB), the failure to notice something right in front of you, offers
cognitive scientists and practitioners alike a unique means of studying the nature of visual …

An emerging literature reveals that happy faces are vivid: They automatically and rapidly
engage cognitive processing at many different levels. They do this in part because their form …

Recent studies have shown that emotion affects cognitive processes including perception
and attention. Emotion identification has been shown to differ under different condition of …

Response inhibition is a crucial component of executive control, which refers to our ability to
suppress responses that are no longer needed or inappropriate. The stop-signal task is a …

Response inhibition involves suppressing those responses that are no longer needed.
Previous research has separately studied the role of attentional resources and emotional …

When a briefly presented and then masked visual object is identified, it impairs the
identification of the second target for several hundred milliseconds. This phenomenon is …

Spatial frequencies have been shown to play an important role in face identification, but very
few studies have investigated the role of spatial frequency content in identifying different …

Mindfulness enhances executive control and regulates emotion, but the role of mindfulness
in response inhibition in emotional contexts remains unclear. The present study used a stop …