A rapid detection and processing of relevant information in our environment is crucial for
survival. The human eyes are drawn to social or threatening stimuli as they may carry …

Finding one's way in unfamiliar environments is an essential ability. When navigating,
people are overwhelmed with an enormous amount of information. However, some …

Numerous studies have demonstrated that attention is quickly oriented towards threatening
stimuli, and that this attentional bias is difficult to inhibit. The root cause (s) of this bias may …

Spiders are among the animals evoking the highest fear and disgust and such a complex
response might have been formed throughout human evolution. Ironically, most spiders do …

A large body of previous research has shown that emotional stimuli have an advantage in a
wide variety of cognitive processes. This was mainly observed in visual search and working …

Background Decision-making processes may play a pivotal role in the etiology and
maintenance of specific phobia. However, empirical evidence is limited. This study …

Introduction Previous research on the visual processing of threats has largely overlooked
the Q8 distinct effects of various types of threats, despite evidence suggesting unique brain …

Fearful, angry, and disgusted facial expressions are evolutionarily salient and convey
different types of threat signals. However, it remains unclear whether these three …

In recent years, several ERP studies have investigated whether the early computation of
agreement is permeable to the emotional content of words. Some studies have reported …

The goal of the present study was to test the effects of emotional arousal elicited by
emotional faces on visual search performance. In Experiment 1, facial expressions acted as …