The last ten years of attention research have witnessed a revolution, replacing a theoretical
dichotomy (top-down vs. bottom-up control) with a trichotomy (biased by current goals …

The so-called 'replicability crisis' has sparked methodological discussions in many areas of
science in general, and in psychology in particular. This has led to recent endeavours to …

The differentiation of faces, facial expressions and affective pictures involves processes of
higher mental activity that have considerable applications in the psychology of moods and …

Animal models of threat processing have evolved beyond the amygdala to incorporate a
distributed neural network. In human research, evidence has intensified in recent years to …

The amygdala plays a major role in the processing of physiologic and behavioral responses
to stress and is characterized by gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-mediated high inhibitory …

Building upon the existing literature on emotional memory, the present review examines
emerging evidence from brain imaging investigations regarding four research directions:(1) …

Emotionally arousing events reach awareness more easily and evoke greater visual cortex
activation than more mundane events. Recent studies have shown that they are also …

Fear learning reflects the adaptive ability to learn to anticipate aversive events and to display
preparatory fear reactions based on prior experiences. Usually, these learning experiences …

Visual selective attention is the process by which we tune ourselves to the world so that, of
the millions of bits per second transmitted by the retina, the information that is most important …

Social interactions require both the rapid processing of multifaceted socio-affective signals
(eg, eye gaze, facial expressions, gestures) and their integration with evaluations, social …