Publications by authors named "Emely Voltz"
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- Selective attention to the emotional quality (valence) of words enhances the early ability to differentiate emotions associated with relevant words while diminishing responses to irrelevant ones.
- The study involved 58 participants who responded quickly to words of a certain emotional quality, revealing that short, high-frequency, and low-arousal words were more effectively processed in terms of emotional discrimination.
- Results indicate that both emotional quality and arousal levels interact during initial processing, supporting the idea that these factors influence how we perceive and react to emotional words at a subconscious level.
Studies of social cognition have shown gender differences regarding human face processing. One interesting finding is the enhanced processing of opposite-gender faces at different time stages, as revealed by event-related brain potentials. Crucially, from an evolutionary perspective, such a bias might interact with the emotional expression of the face.
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