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 …

The rapid and efficient selection of emotionally salient or goal-relevant stimuli in the
environment is crucial for flexible and adaptive behaviors. Converging data from …

Background Dysfunction in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is believed to play a
pivotal role in the pathogenesis of mood and anxiety disorders. Leading neurocircuitry …

Psychophysiological and neuroscience studies of emotional processing undertaken by
investigators at the University of Florida Laboratory of the Center for the Study of Emotion …

The late positive potential (LPP) is a reliable electrophysiological index of emotional
perception in humans. Despite years of research, the brain structures that contribute to the …

Functional imaging studies of emotional processing typically contain neutral control
conditions that serve to remove simple effects of visual perception, thus revealing the …

Episodic retrieval allows people to access memories from the past to guide current thoughts
and decisions. In many real‐world situations, retrieval occurs under conditions of acute …

The regulation of emotion is vital for adaptive behavior in a social environment. Different
strategies may be adopted to achieve successful emotion regulation, ranging from …

A fundamental principle in memory research is that memory is a function of the similarity
between encoding and retrieval operations. Consistent with this principle, many …

BACKGROUND: Neuroimaging studies of emotion in schizophrenia have reported
abnormalities in amygdala and other regions, although divergent results and heterogeneous …