Attention is believed to be biased toward threatening objects or faces. Therefore, we tested whether angry face stimuli would capture attention even when they are irrelevant to the task …
Visual mental imagery resembles visual working memory (VWM). Because both visual mental imagery and VWM involve the representation and manipulation of visual information …
M Petrucci, A Pecchinenda - Cognition and Emotion, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The role of cognitive control mechanisms in reducing interference from emotionally salient distractors was investigated. In two experiments, participants performed a flanker task in …
D Liu, L Wang, Y Wang, Y Jiang - Psychological Science, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Previous research has demonstrated that emotional information processing can be modulated by what is being held in working memory (WM). Here, we showed that such …
EK Pieters, R De Raedt, PM Enock… - Cognitive therapy and …, 2017 - Springer
Negative attention biases (AB) may play a causal role in the development of emotional disorders. In order to examine this proposed causal role, researchers have developed …
N Berggren, R Nako, M Eimer - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Representations of known target features (attentional templates) guide attention toward target objects during visual search. Recent research has shown that templates for …
It is hypothesised that threatening stimuli are detected better due to their salience or physical properties. However, these stimuli are typically embedded in a rich context, motivating the …
X Li, Z Lin, Y Chen, M Gong - Cognition and Emotion, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Angry faces have been shown to be detected more efficiently in a crowd of distractors compared to happy faces, known as the anger superiority effect (ASE). The present study …
TS Satmarean, E Milne, R Rowe - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Aggression and trait anger have been linked to attentional biases toward angry faces and attribution of hostile intent in ambiguous social situations. Memory and emotion play a …