Numerous studies have shown that attention is biased toward threatening events. More
recent evidence has also found attentional biases for stimuli that are relevant to the current …

The present study tested the hypothesis that facilitated processing of threatening faces
depends on working memory load. Participants judged the gender of angry versus happy …

Task relevance affects emotional attention in healthy individuals. Here, we investigate
whether the association between anxiety and attention bias is affected by the task relevance …

In the past decades, affective science has overwhelmingly demonstrated the unique
properties of affective information to bias our attention, memory, and decisions. At the same …

ABSTRACT A growing body of research indicates that attentional biases toward emotional
stimuli are not automatic, but may depend on the relevance of emotion to the top-down …

Attention has long been characterized within prominent models as reflecting a competition
between goal-driven and stimulus-driven processes. It remains unclear, however, how …

Temporary goals modulate attention to threat. We examined whether attentional bias to
angry faces differs depending on whether a temporary background goal is neutral, or threat …

Stimulus-driven preferential attention to threat can be modulated by goal-driven attention.
However, it remains unclear how this goal-driven modulation affects specific attentional …

Despite increasing evidence suggesting interactive effects of emotion and attention on
perceptual processing, it still remains unclear how their interplay influences affective …

Although expressions of facial emotion hold a special status in attention relative to other
complex objects, whether they summon our attention automatically and against our …