Despite an initial focus on negative threatening stimuli, researchers have more recently
expanded the investigation of attentional biases toward positive rewarding stimuli. The present …

To assess whether changes in physical activity and sedentary behaviour during the COVID-19
lockdown are associated with changes in mental and physical health. Observational …

We report two functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments showing enhanced
responses in human middle superior temporal sulcus for angry relative to neutral prosody. This …

Research over the past decades has demonstrated the explanatory power of emotions,
feelings, motivations, moods, and other affective processes when trying to understand and …

Evidence from pioneering animal research has suggested that the amygdala is involved in
the processing of aversive stimuli, particularly fear-related information. Fear is central in the …

While artificial neural networks are regularly employed in modeling the perception of facial
and vocal emotion expression as well as in automatic expression decoding by artificial agents…

We investigated the spatio-temporal dynamic of attentional bias towards fearful faces.
Twelve participants performed a covert spatial orienting task while recording visual event-related …

Consistent failure over the past few decades to reduce the high prevalence of stress-related
disorders has motivated a search for alternative research strategies. Resilience refers to the …

Multiple levels of processing are thought to be involved in the appraisal of emotionally
relevant events, with some processes being engaged relatively independently of attention, …

An alternative to the view that during evolution the human brain became specialized to
preferentially attend to threat-related stimuli is to assume that all classes of stimuli that have high …