Topic: attentional resources

The tight relationship between attention and conscious perception has been extensively researched in the past decades. However, whether attentional modulation extended to unconscious processes remained largely unknown, particularly when it came to abstract and high-level processing. I will talk about a recent study where we utilized the Stroop paradigm to show that task load gates unconscious semantic processing. In a series of psychophysical experiments, the unconscious word semantics influenced conscious task performance only under the low task load condition, but not the high task load cond

Interoception, the internal perception of bodily states such as heartbeat and hunger, plays a crucial role in shaping cognitive and emotional states. Given that previous studies have shown postural control influences cognitive and emotional processing, understanding how postural control influences interoception could contribute to reveal the neural basis of its effects on cognition and emotion. Here, we aimed to investigate the effects of posture on interoception by using heartbeat evoked potentials (HEPs), which are event-related potentials that reflect the cortical processing of heartbeats.T