The question of how learners' motivation influences their academic achievement and vice
versa has been the subject of intensive research due to its theoretical relevance and …

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 …

Arousal may be understood on a spectrum, with excessive sleepiness, cognitive dysfunction,
and inattention on one side, a wakeful state in the middle, and hypervigilance, panic, and …

Event-related potentials (ERPs) have been used for decades to study perception, cognition,
emotion, neurological and psychiatric disorders, and lifespan development. ERPs consist of …

Progress in the study of emotion and emotion regulation has increasingly been informed by
neuroscientific methods. This article focuses on two components of the event-related …

Emotional processes not only serve to record the value of sensory events, but also to elicit
adaptive responses and modify perception. Recent research using functional brain imaging …

The review summarizes and integrates findings from 40 years of event-related potential
(ERP) studies using pictures that differ in valence (unpleasant-to-pleasant) and arousal (low …

Interest in the neuroscience of emotion has increased dramatically over the course of the
last two decades. The rapid growth and popularity, however, have come with a definitional …

This Handbook provides a uniquely comprehensive and scholarly overview of the latest
research on prejudice, stereoty**, and discrimination. All chapters are written by eminent …

Emotional pictures guide selective visual attention. A series of event-related brain potential
(ERP) studies is reviewed demonstrating the consistent and robust modulation of specific …