Most of the previous research in the area of cognitive psychology or cognitive neuroscience
focused on studying negative emotions and argued that the negative emotional stimuli …

We report 3 experiments examining the effects of positive versus negative valence and
perceptual load in determining attention capture by irrelevant emotional distractors …

Emotion is fundamental to our being, and an essential aspect guiding behavior when rapid
responding is required. This includes whether we approach or avoid a stimulus, and the …

An emerging literature reveals that happy faces are vivid: They automatically and rapidly
engage cognitive processing at many different levels. They do this in part because their form …

Response inhibition is a crucial component of executive control, which refers to our ability to
suppress responses that are no longer needed or inappropriate. The stop-signal task is a …

Response inhibition involves suppressing those responses that are no longer needed.
Previous research has separately studied the role of attentional resources and emotional …

When a person recognizes another's emotion, he or she recognizes the (facial) features
associated with emotional expression. So, for a machine to recognize facial emotion (s), the …

Facilitation of emotional face recognition is an established phenomenon for audiovisual
crossmodal stimulation, but not for other sensory modalities. The present study used a …

Cognitive control enables people to adjust their thoughts and actions according to the
current task demands. Response inhibition and response adjustment are two key aspects of …

Spatial frequencies have been shown to play an important role in face identification, but very
few studies have investigated the role of spatial frequency content in identifying different …