Despite an initial focus on negative threatening stimuli, researchers have more recently
expanded the investigation of attentional biases toward positive rewarding stimuli. The …

Neurodiversity, a term initially used mostly by civil and human rights movements since the
1990s, refers to the notion that cognitive as well as emotional properties characteristic of …

This Instructor's Resource Manual has been written to accompany the seventh edition of
Nonverbal Communication in Human Interaction by Mark L. Knapp, Judith A. Hall, and Terry …

Attention can be captured automatically by events that are physically salient. Similarly,
emotional stimuli are known to be prioritised by the visual system because of their …

The region surrounding our body (ie peripersonal space) is coded in a multimodal
representation by fronto-parietal bimodal neurons integrating tactile stimuli on the body with …

Predation is a major source of natural selection on primates and may have shaped
attentional processes that allow primates to rapidly detect dangerous animals. Because …

A substantial literature supports the contention that the involuntary allocation of spatial
attention to salient stimuli is contingent on the top-down goals of the observer. However …

When confronted with threatening stimuli, animals typically respond with freezing behavior
characterized by reduced movement and heart rate deceleration. Freezing-like responses …

Recent research shows that emotional facial expressions impact behavioral responses only
when their valence is relevant to the task. Under such conditions, threatening faces delay …

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 …