Environmental conditions bias our perception of other peoples' facial emotions. This
becomes quite relevant in potentially threatening situations, when a fellow's facial …

Emotional stimuli, including facial expressions, are thought to gain rapid and privileged
access to processing resources in the brain. Despite this access, we are conscious of only a …

Human adaptive behaviour to potential threats involves specialized brain responses
allowing rapid and reflexive processing of the sensory input and a more directed processing …

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 social environments, multiple sensory channels are simultaneously engaged in the
service of communication. In this experiment, we were concerned with defining the neuronal …

Facial expression recognition is mediated by a distributed neural system in humans that
involves multiple, bilateral regions. There are six basic facial expressions that may be …

Processing of unattended threat-related stimuli, such as fearful faces, has been previously
examined using group functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) approaches. However, the …

The anxiety inducing paradigms such as the threat-of-shock paradigm have provided ample
data on the emotional processing of predictable and unpredictable threat, but little is known …

Acquired fear responses often generalize from conditioned stimuli (CS) towards perceptually
similar, but harmless generalization stimuli (GS). Knowledge on similarities between CS and …

The ability to decode facial emotions is of primary importance for human social interactions;
yet, it is still debated how we analyze faces to determine their expression. Here we …