Visual Features and Perceptual Context Modulate Attention Towards Evolutionarily Relevant Threatening Stimuli: Electrophysiological Evidence
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DOI: 10.1037/emo0000434
Abstract: The snake detection hypothesis claims that predatory pressure from snakes has shaped the primate visual system, but we still know very little about how the brain processes evolutionarily important visual cues, and which factors are… read more here.
Keywords: visual features; threatening stimuli; curvilinear shapes; attention ... See more keywords
On the automaticity of attentional orienting to threatening stimuli.
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DOI: 10.1037/emo0000596
Abstract: Attention is biased toward stimuli that have been associated with aversive outcomes in the past. This bias has previously been interpreted as reflecting automatic orienting toward threat signals. However, in many prior studies, either the… read more here.
Keywords: automaticity attentional; threatening stimuli; orienting threatening; automaticity ... See more keywords
Task-irrelevant threatening information is harder to ignore than other valences.
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DOI: 10.1037/emo0001189.supp
Abstract: Emotionally salient objects activate the survival circuits of the brain and are given priority in cognitive processing, even at the cost of inhibiting ongoing activities. These circuits arouse and prepare the organism to take swift… read more here.
Keywords: threatening stimuli; irrelevant threatening; task; harder ... See more keywords