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| L PessoaSummaryAffiliation: National Institutes of Health Country: USA Publications
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The neural correlates of moral sensitivity: a functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of basic and moral emotionsJorge Moll
Neuroimaging and Behavioral Neurology Group, Hospitais D Or and LABS, RJ, 22281 081, Brazil
J Neurosci 22:2730-6. 2002..We suggest that the automatic tagging of ordinary social events with moral values may be an important mechanism for implicit social behaviors in humans...- Neuroimaging studies of attention and the processing of emotion-laden stimuliLuiz Pessoa
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, 49 Convent Drive, Building 49, Room 1B80, Bethesda, MD 20892 4415, USA
Prog Brain Res 144:171-82. 2004.... 
Neural processing of emotional faces requires attentionL Pessoa
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, Building 10, Room 4C104, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:11458-63. 2002..Thus, the processing of facial expression appears to be under top-down control...- Neural correlates of visual working memory: fMRI amplitude predicts task performanceLuiz Pessoa
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Neuron 35:975-87. 2002..Our results indicate that accurate memory depends on strong sustained signals that span the delay interval of WM tasks... - Attentional control of the processing of neural and emotional stimuliLuiz Pessoa
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, 49 Convent Drive, Building 49, Room 1B80, Bethesda, MD 20892 4415, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 15:31-45. 2002..Thus, similar to the processing of other stimulus categories, the processing of facial expression is under top-down control... - Neuroimaging studies of attention: from modulation of sensory processing to top-down controlLuiz Pessoa
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-4415, USA
J Neurosci 23:3990-8. 2003 - Modulation of emotion by cognition and cognition by emotionK S Blair
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 2670, USA
Neuroimage 35:430-40. 2007..NeuroImage, 29 (3), 721-733] and negative connectivity with bilateral amygdala. These data suggest that processes involved in emotional regulation are recruited during task performance in the context of emotional distractors... - Decoding near-threshold perception of fear from distributed single-trial brain activationLuiz Pessoa
Department of Psychology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Cereb Cortex 17:691-701. 2007.... - Neural correlates of perceptual choice and decision making during fear-disgust discriminationAxel Thielscher
High Field Magnetic Resonance Center, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 38, D 72076 Tubingen, Germany
J Neurosci 27:2908-17. 2007.... - Dissociable effects of bottom-up and top-down factors on the processing of unattended fearful facesShen Mou Hsu
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, 1101 East Tenth St, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Neuropsychologia 45:3075-86. 2007..The present findings suggest that responses evoked by unattended fearful faces are modulated by several factors, including attention and stimulus salience... - Bihemispheric leftward bias in a visuospatial attention-related networkTali Siman Tov
Functional Brain Imaging Unit, Wohl Institute for Advanced Imaging, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel
J Neurosci 27:11271-8. 2007..Additionally, the proposed model for asymmetry of visuospatial attention might provide important insights into the mechanisms underlying functional brain lateralization in general... - Affective learning modulates spatial competition during low-load attentional conditionsSeung Lark Lim
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, 1101 E 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Neuropsychologia 46:1267-78. 2008..In addition, it appears that such competitive advantage is only evident when sufficient processing resources are available to process the affective stimulus... 
On the relationship between emotion and cognitionLuiz Pessoa
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and Programs in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
Nat Rev Neurosci 9:148-58. 2008..Central to cognitive-emotional interactions are brain areas with a high degree of connectivity, called hubs, which are critical for regulating the flow and integration of information between regions...- Affective learning enhances visual detection and responses in primary visual cortexSrikanth Padmala
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
J Neurosci 28:6202-10. 2008..Our findings provide a close link between increased activation in early visual cortex and improved behavioral performance as a function of the affective significance of an item... - Load-dependent modulation of affective picture processingFátima Smith Erthal
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 5:388-95. 2005..These results suggest that it is essential to utilize attentional manipulations that more fully consume attentional resources in order to demonstrate that the processing of emotional stimuli is resource limited... - Fate of unattended fearful faces in the amygdala is determined by both attentional resources and cognitive modulationLuiz Pessoa
Department of Psychology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Neuroimage 28:249-55. 2005..Collectively, our findings reveal that both attentional resources and cognitive modulation govern the fate of unattended fearful faces in the amygdala... - Depth of facial expression processing depends on stimulus visibility: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence of priming effectsShen Mou Hsu
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 8:282-92. 2008..Contrary to the above pattern, no evidence for reaction time or LRP differences was observed in the low-visibility condition, revealing that the depth of facial expression processing is dependent on stimulus visibility... - Neural correlates of change detection and change blindness in a working memory taskLuiz Pessoa
Department of Psychology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Cereb Cortex 14:511-20. 2004..Whereas reporting that a change occurred, be it correctly or incorrectly, was associated with strong activation in fronto-parietal sites, change blindness appears to involve very limited territories... - From humble neural beginnings comes knowledge of numbersLuiz Pessoa
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Neuron 37:4-6. 2003.... - Repetition suppression of faces is modulated by emotionAlumit Ishai
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:9827-32. 2004..Our findings demonstrate a three-way interaction between emotional valence, repetition, and task relevance and suggest that repetition suppression is influenced by high-level cognitive processes in the human brain... - Neuroscience. Seeing the world in the same wayLuiz Pessoa
Department of Psychology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Science 303:1617-8. 2004 - Quantitative prediction of perceptual decisions during near-threshold fear detectionLuiz Pessoa
Department of Psychology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:5612-7. 2005.... - To what extent are emotional visual stimuli processed without attention and awareness?Luiz Pessoa
Department of Psychology, Brown University, 89 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 15:188-96. 2005..A better understanding of the neural basis of emotional perception and how it relates to visual attention and awareness is likely to require further refinement of the concepts of automaticity and awareness... - Contour integration in the primary visual cortex of the opossumLeticia Oliveira
Institute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, CCS BL G UFRJ, Ilha do Fundao, Rio de Janeiro, 21949 900, Brazil
Neuroreport 13:2001-4. 2002..The present results indicate that the property of contour integration appears to be a basic property of the mammalian visual system... - Target visibility and visual awareness modulate amygdala responses to fearful facesLuiz Pessoa
Department of Psychology, Brown University, 89 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Cereb Cortex 16:366-75. 2006..Taken together, our results further challenge the view that amygdala responses occur automatically... - Affective learning increases sensitivity to graded emotional facesSeung Lark Lim
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Emotion 8:96-103. 2008.... - Motivation sharpens exogenous spatial attentionJan B Engelmann
Department of Psychology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Emotion 7:668-74. 2007.... - Fear perception: can objective and subjective awareness measures be dissociated?Remigiusz Szczepanowski
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
J Vis 7:10. 2007..The determination of such a dissociation zone may help in understanding the conditions linked to aware and unaware fear perception... - Sustained and transient modulation of performance induced by emotional picture viewingMirtes Garcia Pereira
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Federal Fluminense University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Emotion 6:622-34. 2006..Ultimately, both attentional and motivational systems are intricately tied in the brain and, together, determine behavior... - Visual awareness and the detection of fearful facesLuiz Pessoa
Department of Psychology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Emotion 5:243-7. 2005..Their findings suggest that considerable information is available even in briefly presented stimuli (possibly as short as 17 ms) to support masked fear detection...