"Emotions"

Multiple Synergistic Effects of Emotion and Memory on Proactive Processes Leading to Scene Recognition

Visual scene recognition is a proactive process through which contextual cues and top-down expectations facilitate the extraction of invariant features. Whether the emotional content of the scenes exerts a reliable influence on these processes or …

Brain Mechanisms for Emotional Influences on Perception and Attention: What Is Magic and What Is Not

The rapid and efficient selection of emotionally salient or goal-relevant stimuli in the environment is crucial for flexible and adaptive behaviors. Converging data from neuroscience and psychology have accrued during the last decade to identify …

Valence-Specific Modulation in the Accumulation of Perceptual Evidence Prior to Visual Scene Recognition

Visual scene recognition is a dynamic process through which incoming sensory information is iteratively compared with predictions regarding the most likely identity of the input stimulus. In this study, we used a novel progressive unfolding task to …

Brain Dynamics of Upstream Perceptual Processes Leading to Visual Object Recognition: A High Density ERP Topographic Mapping Study

Recent studies suggest that visual object recognition is a proactive process through which perceptual evidence accumulates over time before a decision can be made about the object. However, the exact electrophysiological correlates and time-course of …