A new study published in the journal Cognition has found that people with lower levels of autistic traits show a persistent tendency to pay more attention to images of animals compared to images of ...

One area of research that has gained attention is the concept of attentional biases, which refers to the tendency to focus on certain types of information over others. In the context of chronic ...

Getting stuck in a negative loop is part of many mental health disorders. A new therapy focuses more on these thought patterns than the thoughts themselves.

Studies show that behavioral inhibition involves a bias of attention networks in the brain towards threat and away from positive information. While attentional bias toward threat may be the way ...

Background: Previous research has demonstrated that abnormal attentional bias toward social threats at different processing stages is pivotal for the development and maintenance of social anxiety.

Introduction: Attentional bias to reward-associated stimuli can occur even when it interferes with goal-driven behavior. One theory posits that dopaminergic signaling in the striatum during reward ...

“Yes, you’re the media now. We’ve had that before. It’s the attentional upside of news without all the work beneath it. You see the pirating of stories from other places without the actual ...

This important study uses recently developed EEG analysis methods to investigate spatial distractor suppression in a combined visual search/working memory task. The reported results are compelling, ...

Since René Descartes' first treatise on emotions in 1649, a great deal of research has been carried out into the impact of emotions on our daily lives. Terms such as "bientraitance", "emotional ...