Preconscious fear-like stimuli affect overt and covert emotional conscious processing
Sergio Frumento, Alberto Greco, Alejandro Luis Callara, Andrea Baldini, Enzo Pasquale Scilingo, Danilo Menicucci, Angelo Gemignani · FENS Forum 2024
Subliminal phobic stimuli have been used since decades to investigate the role of consciousness in emotions' surge and regulation. The present study used an augmented reality setting to show neutral (deers, birds), generically-fearful (bears) or phobic (spiders) stimuli to 50 more-or-less spiderfearful participants while registering their electroencephalographic, electrocardiographic and electrodermal correlates. Importantly, each stimulus was followed by a trial-by-trial check of its detection, allowing to distinguish perceptually-subliminal stimuli (i.e., what is usually intended as "sublimi
ePoster · Neuroscience