Emotion plays a major role in influencing our everyday cognitive and behavioral functions,
including decision making. We introduce different ways in which emotions are characterized …

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 …

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 …

Perceptual load plays a critical role in identification and awareness of stimuli. Given the
differences in emotion–attention interactions, we investigated the perception of distractor …

Research studies have focused on stimulus features as well as internal or contextual factors
to understand aesthetic experience. An important question is the nature of processes that …

Objectives Although mindfulness improves executive control and emotional processing, its
impact on conflict resolution—an essential executive function—in emotionally irrelevant …

It has been debated that arousal rather than valence modulates the response-inhibition
process. The processing of irrelevant information of happy and angry faces interacts with …

When we make errors, we tend to experience a negative emotional state. In addition, if our
errors are witnessed by other people, we might expect those observers to respond …

We examined proactive and reactive control effects in the context of task-relevant happy,
sad, and angry facial expressions on a face-word Stroop task. Participants identified the …

Recent studies suggest that attentional bias towards emotional distractors depends on a
task's perceptual load. The specifics of the interaction of perceptual load in the context of …