The rapid and efficient selection of emotionally salient or goal-relevant stimuli in the
environment is crucial for flexible and adaptive behaviors. Converging data from …

Current knowledge on the architecture of exogenous attention (also called automatic, bottom-
up, or stimulus-driven attention, among other terms) has been mainly obtained from studies …

The current view of brain organization supports the notion that there is a considerable
degree of functional specialization and that many regions can be conceptualized as …

Emotion and motivation have crucial roles in determining human behavior. Yet, how they
interact with cognitive control functions is less understood. Here, the basic elements of a …

Episodic retrieval allows people to access memories from the past to guide current thoughts
and decisions. In many real‐world situations, retrieval occurs under conditions of acute …

The amygdala's historical role in processing stimuli related to threat and fear is being
modified to suggest a role that is broader and more abstract. Amygdala lesions impair the …

Extensive research has investigated societal and behavioral consequences of social group
affiliation and identification but has been relatively silent on the role of perception in …

If the amygdala is involved in shaping perceptual experience when affectively significant
visual items are encountered, responses in this structure should be correlated with both …

Although sustaining a moderate level of attention is critical in daily life, evidence suggests
that attention is not deployed consistently, but rather fluctuates from moment to moment …

The arousal-biased competition model predicts that arousal increases the gain on neural
competition between stimuli representations. Thus, the model predicts that arousal …