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• Orchid agonistes

  Author:Misha AngristFrom:Nature (Vol. 465, Issue 7297) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20101,069 words Article 980LThe sweet smell of the past. Author(s): Misha Angrist 1 Author Affiliations: (1) Misha Angrist is at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy. His book Here is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal...

• Dopamine and Pain Sensitivity: Neither Sulpiride nor Acute Phenylalanine and Tyrosine Depletion Have Effects on Thermal Pain Sensations in Healthy Volunteers

  From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 13, 20138,995 words Article 1520LBased on animal studies and some indirect clinical evidence, dopamine has been suggested to have anti-nociceptive effects. Here, we investigated directly the effects of increased and decreased availability of...

• The Impact of Acute Psychosocial Stress on Magnetoencephalographic Correlates of Emotional Attention and Exogenous Visual Attention

  Authors:Ludger Elling, Harald Schupp, Janine Bayer, Ann-Kathrin Brockelmann, Christian Steinberg, Christian Dobel, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  June 11, 20127,753 words Article 1330LAuthor(s): Ludger Elling 1 , * , Harald Schupp 2 , Janine Bayer 3 , Ann-Kathrin Bröckelmann 1 , Christian Steinberg 1 , Christian Dobel 1 , Markus Junghofer 1 Introduction It has been suggested that, under acute...

• Out of mind, out of sight: unexpected scene elements frequently go unnoticed until primed

  Authors:George M. Slavich and Philip G. ZimbardoFrom:Current Psychology (Vol. 32, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 20137,134 words Report 1450LThe human visual system employs a sophisticated set of strategies for scanning the environment and directing attention to stimuli that can be expected given the context and a person's past experience. Although these...

• Abnormal Neural Processing during Emotional Salience Attribution of Affective Asymmetry in Patients with Schizophrenia

  Authors:Seon-Koo Lee, Ji Won Chun, Jung Suk Lee, Hae-Jeong Park, Young-Chul Jung, Jeong-Ho Seok, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 11, 20145,613 words Article 1490LAuthor(s): Seon-Koo Lee 1,2, Ji Won Chun 1, Jung Suk Lee 1,3, Hae-Jeong Park 4, Young-Chul Jung 1,5, Jeong-Ho Seok 1,5, Jae-Jin Kim 1,4,5,* Introduction Salience refers to the state or quality of an item that...

• The Goldilocks Effect: Human Infants Allocate Attention to Visual Sequences That Are Neither Too Simple Nor Too Complex

  Authors:Celeste Kidd, Steven T. Piantadosi, and Richard N. AslinFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 23, 20127,446 words Article 1550LHuman infants, like immature members of any species, must be highly selective in sampling information from their environment to learn efficiently. Failure to be selective would waste precious computational resources on...

• Selective Attention to Task-Irrelevant Emotional Distractors Is Unaffected by the Perceptual Load Associated with a Foreground Task

  Authors:Catherine Hindi Attar and Matthias M. MullerFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 23, 20127,504 words Article 1550LA number of studies have shown that emotionally arousing stimuli are preferentially processed in the human brain. Whether or not this preference persists under increased perceptual load associated with a task at hand...

• Stimulus discriminability may bias value-based probabilistic learning

  Authors:Iris Schutte, Heleen A. Slagter, Anne G. E. Collins, Michael J. Frank, and J. Leon KenemansFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 8, 201711,454 words Report 1590LReinforcement learning tasks are often used to assess participants' tendency to learn more from the positive or more from the negative consequences of one's action. However, this assessment often requires comparison in...

• Stimulus Saliency Modulates Pre-Attentive Processing Speed in Human Visual Cortex

  Authors:Thomas Tollner, Michael Zehetleitner, Klaus Gramann, and Hermann J. MullerFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 21, 20116,334 words Article 1630LThe notion of a saliency-based processing architecture [1] underlying human vision is central to a number of current theories of visual selective attention [e.g., 2]. On this view, focal-attention is guided by an...

• More Than the Verbal Stimulus Matters: Visual Attention in Language Assessment for People With Aphasia Using Multiple-Choice Image Displays

  Authors:Sabine Heuer, Maria V. Ivanova, and Brooke HallowellFrom:Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (Vol. 60, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20178,287 words Article 1450LPurpose: Language comprehension in people with aphasia (PWA) is frequently evaluated using multiple-choice displays: PWA are asked to choose the image that best corresponds to the verbal stimulus in a display. When a...

• Workload and stress in vigilance: the impact of display format and task type

  Author:James L. SzalmaFrom:American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 124, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 20117,333 words Report 1540LSignal salience was manipulated using configural and object displays to examine their effects on the performance, workload, and stress of vigilance. Improving performance and reducing the workload and stress of...

• Emotions' Impact on Viewing Behavior under Natural Conditions

  Authors:Kai Kaspar, Teresa-Maria Hloucal, Jurgen Kriz, Sonja Canzler, Ricardo Ramos Gameiro, Vanessa Krapp, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 9, 201312,462 words Article 1370LHuman overt attention under natural conditions is guided by stimulus features as well as by higher cognitive components, such as task and emotional context. In contrast to the considerable progress regarding the former,...

• Discrimination learning with variable stimulus 'salience'

  Authors:Mario Trevino, Efren Aguilar-Garnica, Patrick Jendritza, Shi-Bin Li, Tatiana Oviedo, Georg Kohr, et al.From:International Archives of Medicine (Vol. 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 3, 20112,456 words Report 1450LBackground In nature, sensory stimuli are organized in heterogeneous combinations. Salient items from these combinations 'stand-out' from their surroundings and determine what and how we learn. Yet, the relationship...

• Eye movements, visual search and scene memory, in an immersive virtual environment

  Authors:Dmitry Kit, Leor Katz, Brian Sullivan, Kat Snyder, Dana Ballard, and Mary HayhoeFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20149,447 words Report 1400LVisual memory has been demonstrated to play a role in both visual search and attentional prioritization in natural scenes. However, it has been studied predominantly in experimental paradigms using multiple...

• Event-Related Potentials Dissociate Effects of Salience and Space in Biased Competition for Visual Representation

  Authors:Matthew R. Hilimire, Jeffrey R. W. Mounts, Nathan A. Parks, and Paul M. CorballisFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 5, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 16, 20108,308 words Article 1530LBackground Selective visual attention is the process by which the visual system enhances behaviorally relevant stimuli and filters out others. Visual attention is thought to operate through a cortical mechanism known...

• The Effects of Foreknowledge and Task-Set Shifting as Mirrored in Cue- and Target-Locked Event-Related Potentials

  Authors:Mareike Finke, Carles Escera, and Francisco BarceloFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 12, 20128,296 words Article 1520LAuthor(s): Mareike Finke 1 , 2 , Carles Escera 1 , 2 , Francisco Barceló 2 , 3 , * Introduction The brain's ability to represent, maintain and update contextual ( task-set ) information enables us to alternate...

• Startling similarity: Effects of facial self-resemblance and familiarity on the processing of emotional faces

  Authors:Johannes B. Finke, Mauro F. Larra, Martina U. Merz, and Hartm SchAaAaAeAnchingerFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 7, 201711,209 words Report 1610LFacial self-resemblance has been associated with positive emotional evaluations, but this effect may be biased by self-face familiarity. Here we report two experiments utilizing startle modulation to investigate how the...

• Towards a Near Infrared Spectroscopy-Based Estimation of Operator Attentional State

  Authors:Gerard Derosiere, Sami Dalhoumi, Stephane Perrey, Gerard Dray, and Tomas WardFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 14, 20147,589 words Article 1500LAuthor(s): Gérard Derosière 1,2,*, Sami Dalhoumi 2,3, Stéphane Perrey 1, Gérard Dray 3, Tomas Ward 2 Introduction Attention to a cognitively demanding task cannot be maintained at a high level indefinitely. During...

• Sound Asleep: Processing and Retention of Slow Oscillation Phase-Targeted Stimuli

  Authors:Roy Cox, Ilia Korjoukov, Marieke de Boer, and Lucia M. TalaminiFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 7, 201410,484 words Article 1420LThe sleeping brain retains some residual information processing capacity. Although direct evidence is scarce, a substantial literature suggests the phase of slow oscillations during deep sleep to be an important...

• Reproducibility and Discriminability of Brain Patterns of Semantic Categories Enhanced by Congruent Audiovisual Stimuli

  Authors:Yuanqing Li, Guangyi Wang, Jinyi Long, Zhuliang Yu, Biao Huang, Xiaojian Li, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  June 29, 20119,622 words Article 1610LOne of the central questions in cognitive neuroscience is the precise neural representation, or brain pattern, associated with a semantic category. In this study, we explored the influence of audiovisual stimuli on the...