Emotion and Attention Interaction: a trade-off between stimuli relevance, motivation and individual differences

Mounting evidence suggests that the neural processing of emotional stimuli is prioritized. However, whether the processing of emotional stimuli is dependent on attention remains debatable. Several studies have investigated this issue by testing the capacity of emotional distracters to divert process...

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Main Authors: Leticia eOliveira, Izabela eMocaiber, Isabel A David, Fatima eErthal, Eliane eVolchan, Mirtes ePereira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00364/full