The role of emotional valence for the processing of facial and verbal stimuli—positivity or negativity bias?

C Kauschke, D Bahn, M Vesker… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Emotional valence is predominately conveyed in social interactions by words and facial
expressions. The existence of broad biases which favor more efficient processing of positive …

Attentional control of the processing of neutral and emotional stimuli

L Pessoa, S Kastner, LG Ungerleider - Cognitive Brain Research, 2002 - Elsevier
A typical scene contains many different objects that compete for neural representation due to
the limited processing capacity of the visual system. At the neural level, competition among …

[CITATION][C] Affect regulation and the repair of the self

AN Schore - 2003 - books.google.com
This volume (one of two) is the first presentation of Schore's comprehensive theory in book
form, as it has developed since 1994. In 1994 Allan Schore published his groundbreaking …

Differential attentional guidance by unattended faces expressing positive and negative emotion

JD Eastwood, D Smilek, PM Merikle - Perception & psychophysics, 2001 - Springer
Four experiments were conducted to evaluate whether focal attention can be guided by an
analysis of the emotional expression in a face. Participants searched displays of 7, 11, 15 …

Facial expressions of emotion (KDEF): Identification under different display-duration conditions

MG Calvo, D Lundqvist - Behavior research methods, 2008 - Springer
Participants judged which of seven facial expressions (neutrality, happiness, anger,
sadness, surprise, fear, and disgust) were displayed by a set of 280 faces corresponding to …

The “visual preference heuristic”: The influence of visual versus verbal depiction on assortment processing, perceived variety, and choice overload

C Townsend, BE Kahn - Journal of Consumer Research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The “visual preference heuristic” suggests that consumers prefer visual to verbal depiction of
information in a product assortment. Images produce greater perceptions of variety than text …

Neuroimaging studies of attention: from modulation of sensory processing to top-down control

L Pessoa, S Kastner, LG Ungerleider - Journal of Neuroscience, 2003 - Soc Neuroscience
What we perceive depends critically on where we direct our attention. For example, attention
to a location dramatically improves the accuracy and speed of detecting a target at that …

Depression biases the recognition of emotionally neutral faces

JM Leppänen, M Milders, JS Bell, E Terriere… - Psychiatry …, 2004 - Elsevier
Functional abnormalities in emotion-related brain systems have been implicated in
depression, and depressed patients may therefore attribute emotional valence to stimuli that …

Positive facial expressions are recognized faster than negative facial expressions, but why?

JM Leppänen, JK Hietanen - Psychological research, 2004 - Springer
Three experiments examined the recognition speed advantage for happy faces. The results
replicated earlier findings by showing that positive (happy) facial expressions were …

Effect of negative emotional content on working memory and long-term memory.

EA Kensinger, S Corkin - Emotion, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
In long-term memory, negative information is better remembered than neutral information.
Differences in processes important to working memory may contribute to this emotional …