Topic: emotional regulation

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

Attentional preference for social stimuli, such as different facial expressions, is an important part of the development of humans' behavioral and emotional health. Infants demonstrate a predilection for faces and tend to sustain visual attention over non-social stimuli immediately after birth and throughout infancy. Infants begin to identify facial expressions and emotions around the age of 6 to 8 months. Studies have shown that the amygdala plays an important role in infants' attentional bias towards faces and fear processing. The goal of this study was to examine how infants’ amygdala mean