Paying attention to faces is of special interest for humans as well as for scientific research.
The experimental manipulation of facial information offers an ecologically valid approach to …

Event‐related potential studies of emotional processing have focused on the late positive
potential (LPP), a sustained positive deflection in the ERP that is increased for emotionally …

Event-related potentials (ERPs) have been used for decades to study perception, cognition,
emotion, neurological and psychiatric disorders, and lifespan development. ERPs consist of …

Progress in the study of emotion and emotion regulation has increasingly been informed by
neuroscientific methods. This article focuses on two components of the event-related …

Facial expressions of emotion involve a physical component of morphological changes in a
face and an affective component conveying information about the expresser's internal …

There is ample empirical evidence for an asymmetry in the way that adults use positive
versus negative information to make sense of their world; specifically, across an array of …

Humans likely evolved precautionary systems designed to minimize the threats to
reproductive fitness posed by highly interdependent ultrasociality. A review of research on …

Facial expressions are of eminent importance for social interaction as they convey
information about other individuals' emotions and social intentions. According to the …

Interest in the neuroscience of emotion has increased dramatically over the course of the
last two decades. The rapid growth and popularity, however, have come with a definitional …

Emotional pictures guide selective visual attention. A series of event-related brain potential
(ERP) studies is reviewed demonstrating the consistent and robust modulation of specific …