Paying attention to faces is of special interest for humans as well as for scientific research.
The experimental manipulation of facial information offers an ecologically valid approach to …

In recent years, a growing corpus of research has been conducted utilizing a variety of
behavioral and neurophysiological methodologies to investigate the relationship of emotion …

Emotional valence is known to influence word processing dependent upon concreteness.
Whereas some studies point towards stronger effects of emotion on concrete words, others …

Empathic impairment is one of the hallmarks of psychopathy, a personality dimension
associated with poverty in affective reactions, lack of attachment to others, and a callous …

Human brains spontaneously differentiate between various emotional and neutral stimuli,
including written words whose emotional quality is symbolic. In the electroencephalogram …

Users' first impressions of a website have a great impact on their subsequent behaviors and
attitudes toward the website. Visual complexity and order are two key factors of webpage …

The personal significance of a language statement depends on its communicative context.
However, this is rarely taken into account in neuroscience studies. Here, we investigate how …

In this study, we used event-related potentials to examine how different dimensions of
emotion—valence and arousal—influence different stages of word processing under …

How do human brains integrate content with social context in communication? Recent
research demonstrates that the perceived communicative embedding of perceptually …

Here, we conducted the first study to explore how motivations expressed through speech are
processed in real-time. Participants listened to sentences spoken in two types of well …