RSVP

Emotional Content Overrides Spatial Attention

Spatial attention is our capacity to attend to or ignore particular regions of our spatial environment. However, some classes of stimuli may be able to override our efforts to ignore them. Here we assessed the relationship between involuntary …

Rapid Sensory Gain with Emotional Distracters Precedes Attentional Deployment from a Foreground Task

The steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP), an electrophysiological marker of attentional resource allocation, has recently been demonstrated to serve as a neural signature of emotional content extraction from a rapid serial visual presentation …