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 …

Load Theory assumes that the extent of processing of task-irrelevant information depends
on the level (high vs. low load) and type (perceptual vs. working memory) of task load. In this …

Emotional facial expressions lead to modulations of early event-related potentials (ERPs).
However, it has so far remained unclear how far these modulations represent face-specific …

The processing of fearful facial expressions is prioritized by the human brain. This priority is
maintained across various information processing stages as evident in early, intermediate …

In neuroscientific studies, the naturalness of face presentation differs; a third of published
studies makes use of close-up full coloured faces, a third uses close-up grey-scaled faces …

Prioritized processing of fearful compared to neutral faces is reflected in behavioral
advantages such as lower detection thresholds, but also in enhanced early and late event …

High perceptual load is thought to impair already the early stages of visual processing of
task-irrelevant visual stimuli. However, recent studies showed no effects of perceptual load …

Conventional EEG-fMRI methods have been proven to be of limited use in the sense that
they cannot reveal the information existing in between the spikes. To resolve this issue, the …

The temporal and spatial neural processing of faces has been investigated rigorously, but
few studies have unified these dimensions to reveal the spatio-temporal dynamics …

The human brain is tuned to recognize emotional facial expressions in faces having a
natural upright orientation. The relative contributions of featural, configural, and holistic …