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 …

Although the arousal elicited by emotional stimuli, similarly to valence, is an integrative part
of emotion theories, previous studies and reviews mostly focused on the valence of a …

Using appropriate stimuli to evoke emotions is especially important for researching emotion.
Psychologists have provided several standardized affective stimulus databases—such as …

Cartoon characters are omnipresent in popular media. While few studies have scientifically
investigated their processing, in computer graphics, efforts are made to increase realism …

Emotional bias, which describes human's asymmetric processing of emotional stimuli,
consists of negativity bias (Increased response to negative over positive stimuli) and …

Message framing plays an important role in advertising strategies and has been studied
from various perspectives in different behavioral researches. In this study Event Rated …

The temporal dynamics of top‐down voluntary and bottom‐up driven emotional attention are
a matter of debate. Both emotion and task‐relevance have been shown to affect the early …

Background Depression is one of the most common psychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's
disease (AD), occurring in up to 40% of AD patients. It influences the cognitive function of …

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is an approved intervention for treatment-resistant
depression (TRD), but current targeting approaches are only partially successful. Our …

Stimuli encountered in the environment are continuously evaluated according to their
affective stimulus significance. Numerous event‐related potential studies have shown that …