Positive emotions have a unique capacity to capture attention

R Gupta - Progress in brain research, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Emotional attention: A study of image sentiment and visual attention

S Fan, Z Shen, M Jiang, BL Koenig… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Image sentiment influences visual perception. Emotion-eliciting stimuli such as happy faces
and poisonous snakes are generally prioritized in human attention. However, little research …

WSCNet: Weakly supervised coupled networks for visual sentiment classification and detection

D She, J Yang, MM Cheng, YK Lai… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic assessment of sentiment from visual content has gained considerable attention
with the increasing tendency of expressing opinions online. In this paper, we solve the …

Recognizing emotions through facial expressions: A largescale experimental study

AR Dores, F Barbosa, C Queirós, IP Carvalho… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Experimental research examining emotional processes is typically based on the observation
of images with affective content, including facial expressions. Future studies will benefit from …

Irrelevant angry, but not happy, faces facilitate response inhibition in mindfulness meditators

S Lodha, R Gupta - Current Psychology, 2024 - Springer
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 …

Irrelevant Emotional Information Does Not Modulate Response Conflict in Mindfulness Meditators

S Lodha, R Gupta - Mindfulness, 2024 - Springer
Objectives Although mindfulness improves executive control and emotional processing, its
impact on conflict resolution—an essential executive function—in emotionally irrelevant …

Only irrelevant angry, but not happy, expressions facilitate the response inhibition

R Gupta, JP Singh - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2021 - Springer
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 …

Emotional attention: From eye tracking to computational modeling

S Fan, Z Shen, M Jiang, BL Koenig… - … on Pattern Analysis …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Attending selectively to emotion-eliciting stimuli is intrinsic to human vision. In this research,
we investigate how emotion-elicitation features of images relate to human selective …

Irrelevant emotional expressions interfered with response inhibition: the role of contrast emotions

R Gupta, JP Singh - Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Irrelevant emotional faces would facilitate or inhibit response inhibition, depending on how
these faces are paired with different emotional faces. In previous studies, angry faces were …

IAPS in India: A Cross-cultural Validation Study of Highly Arousing Emotional Pictures

S Lodha, R Gupta - Psychology and Developing Societies, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article aims to obtain a set of erotic and gory pictures from the International Affective
Picture System (IAPS) for use in studies across India. Additionally, it compares the ratings of …