Deconstructing threat: Rethinking the interplay between biological and social relevance in the emotional salience of unpleasant images
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DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.107788
Abstract: The type of threat shown in an image influences the emotional salience of unpleasant images. Seventy-four participants (21 male) rated high threat, moderate threat, and neutral images featuring reptiles, firearms, or humans as electroencephalographic activity… read more here.
Keywords: social relevance; salience unpleasant; unpleasant images; threat ... See more keywords
Searching for emotional salience
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104730
Abstract: In the emotion induced blindness (EIB) paradigm, participants search for a single target picture embedded in a rapidly presented sequence of "background" pictures. When the sequence also contains a task-irrelevant, emotional distractor appearing shortly before… read more here.
Keywords: background; salience; attention capture; emotional salience ... See more keywords
Emotional salience enhances intelligibility in adverse acoustic conditions
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DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107580
Abstract: INTRODUCTION Emotion facilitates word recognition under adverse acoustic conditions. We use an auditory emotional paradigm to evaluate the ability to distinguish words from irrelevant random stimuli, elucidating its neural correlates. Secondarily, we evaluate the impact… read more here.
Keywords: intelligibility; medium; acoustic conditions; adverse acoustic ... See more keywords
M145. ALTERED SUBCORTICAL EMOTIONAL SALIENCE PROCESSING AND A ‘JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS’ BIAS IN PARKINSON’S PATIENTS WITH PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS
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DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbaa030.457
Abstract: Abstract Background Current research does not provide a clear explanation for why some patients with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) develop psychotic symptoms. In schizophrenia research the ‘aberrant salience hypothesis’ of psychosis has been influential in explaining… read more here.
Keywords: salience processing; salience; psychotic symptoms; emotional salience ... See more keywords