Autonomic nervous system functioning in early childhood: Responses to cognitive and negatively valenced emotional challenges.
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DOI: 10.1002/dev.21926
Abstract: Although autonomic nervous system (ANS) functioning is "context-dependent," few studies examined children's normative sympathetic and parasympathetic autonomic responses to distinct challenges in early childhood years. Examining children's ANS responsivity to distinct challenges is important for… read more here.
Keywords: autonomic nervous; nervous system; responses cognitive; negatively valenced ... See more keywords
Attention allocation to negatively-valenced stimuli in PTSD is associated with reward-related neural pathways.
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DOI: 10.1017/s003329172200157x
Abstract: BACKGROUND In a recent eye-tracking study we found a differential dwell time pattern for negatively-valenced and neutral faces among patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), trauma-exposed healthy control (TEHCs), and healthy control (HC) participants. Here,… read more here.
Keywords: stimuli ptsd; negatively valenced; valenced stimuli; attention allocation ... See more keywords
No experimental evidence for emotion-specific gaze cueing in a threat context
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DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2018.1554554
Abstract: ABSTRACT We examined the utility of a gaze cueing paradigm to examine sensitivity to differences among negatively valenced expressions. Participants judged target stimuli (dangerous or safe), the location of which was cued by the gaze… read more here.
Keywords: evidence; negatively valenced; threat; gaze ... See more keywords
Individuals with Psychopathic Traits view Distracting Neutral Information as Negatively Valenced
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DOI: 10.1080/14999013.2017.1405126
Abstract: ABSTRACT Research has shown that psychopathic individuals ignore information that is outside their goal-directed focus of attention. When affective information is goal-irrelevant, ignoring it results in a blunted affective response for psychopathic individuals. In cognitive… read more here.
Keywords: goal; information; neutral information; inhibitory devaluation ... See more keywords