Recent years have witnessed the emergence of powerful new tools for assaying the brain
and a remarkable acceleration of research focused on the interplay of emotion and …

The current study examined whether the interaction between emotion and executive control
(EC) is modulated by the processing type of the emotional information. Namely, whether the …

Previous research has demonstrated that anxious individuals attend to negative emotional
information at the expense of other information. This is commonly referred to as attentional …

Recent evidence has suggested a crucial role of people's current goals in attention to
emotional information. This asks for research investigating how and what kinds of goals …

The auditory gaze cueing effect (auditory-GCE) is a faster response to auditory targets at an
eye-gaze cue location than at a non-cue location. Previous research has found that auditory …

Over the past two decades, various studies have shown that not only negative but also
positive information evokes attentional bias. In this chapter, we will discuss theories and …

The perception of threat is important for survival and is therefore perceptually prioritized.
This prioritization has largely been studied as a stimulus-driven (ie, bottom-up) process …

The current experiment examined the effect of fair-related stimuli on attentional orienting and
the role of cardiac vagal tone indexed by heart rate variability (HRV). Neutral faces were …

Background Hypervigilance to pain is the automatic prioritization of pain-related compared
with other stimuli. The processing of threat information is influenced by negative contexts …

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of interest focused on the interplay of emotion
and cognition (Pessoa, 2013; Braver et al., 2014; Dolcos and Denkova, 2014). The goal of …