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Tuning to the significant: Neural and genetic processes underlying affective enhancement of visual perception and memory

Volume: 259, Pages: 229 - 241
Published: Feb 1, 2014
Abstract
Emotionally arousing events reach awareness more easily and evoke greater visual cortex activation than more mundane events. Recent studies have shown that they are also perceived more vividly and that emotionally enhanced perceptual vividness predicts memory vividness. We propose that affect-biased attention (ABA) - selective attention to emotionally salient events - is an endogenous attentional system tuned by an individual's history of reward...
Paper Details
Title
Tuning to the significant: Neural and genetic processes underlying affective enhancement of visual perception and memory
Published Date
Feb 1, 2014
Volume
259
Pages
229 - 241
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