Perception and the Conditioned Reflex

Orienting of Attention

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The reorienting system of the human brain: from environment to theory of mind

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Attention and the detection of signals.

Posner, M. I., Snyder, C. R., & Davidson, B. J. (1980) · Journal of Experimental Psychology: General · doi:10.1037/0096-3445.109.2.160 · Cited by 3,778

Is the P300 component a manifestation of context updating?

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Fears, phobias, and preparedness: toward an evolved module of fear and fear learning

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A psychomotor stimulant theory of addiction.

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Influence of cognitive control and mismatch on the N2 component of the ERP: A review

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Emotion and motivation I: Defensive and appetitive reactions in picture processing.

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Emotion, attention, and the startle reflex

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Emotion drives attention: Detecting the snake in the grass.

Öhman, A., Flykt, A., & Esteves, F. (2001) · Journal of Experimental Psychology: General · doi:10.1037/0096-3445.130.3.466 · Cited by 2,542

Inhibition of return

Klein, R. M. (2000) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/s1364-6613(00)01452-2 · Cited by 2,017

On the utility of P3 amplitude as a measure of processing capacity

Kok, A. (2001) · Psychophysiology · doi:10.1017/s0048577201990559 · Cited by 1,766

Components of attention

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Pain demands attention: A cognitive–affective model of the interruptive function of pain.

Eccleston, C., & Crombez, G. (1999) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.125.3.356 · Cited by 1,718

Orienting in a defensive world: Mammalian modifications of our evolutionary heritage. A Polyvagal Theory

PORGES, S. W. (1995) · Psychophysiology · doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.1995.tb01213.x · Cited by 1,624

The face in the crowd revisited: A threat advantage with schematic stimuli.

Öhman, A., Lundqvist, D., & Esteves, F. (2001) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037/0022-3514.80.3.381 · Cited by 1,366

Developing mechanisms of self-regulation

POSNER, M. I., & ROTHBART, M. K. (2000) · Development and Psychopathology · doi:10.1017/s0954579400003096 · Cited by 1,349

The novelty P3: an event-related brain potential (ERP) sign of the brain's evaluation of novelty

Friedman, D., Cycowicz, Y. M., & Gaeta, H. (2001) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · doi:10.1016/s0149-7634(01)00019-7 · Cited by 1,282

Arousal, activation, and effort in the control of attention.

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Fear and anxiety: Animal models and human cognitive psychophysiology

Lang, P. J., Davis, M., & Öhman, A. (2000) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/s0165-0327(00)00343-8 · Cited by 1,162

On the capacity of attention: Its estimation and its role in working memory and cognitive aptitudes

Cowan, N., Elliott, E. M., Scott Saults, J., Morey, C. C., Mattox, S., Hismjatullina, A., & Conway, A. R. A. (2005) · Cognitive Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2004.12.001 · Cited by 1,144

The Psychology and Neuroscience of Curiosity

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The cognitive activation theory of stress.

Ursin, H., & Eriksen, H. R. (2004) · Psychoneuroendocrinology · doi:10.1016/s0306-4530(03)00091-x · Cited by 1,004

Natural selective attention: Orienting and emotion

Bradley, M. M. (2009) · Psychophysiology · doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00702.x · Cited by 976

Vigilance, alertness, or sustained attention: physiological basis and measurement

Oken, B. S., Salinsky, M. C., & Elsas, S. M. (2006) · Clinical Neurophysiology · doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2006.01.017 · Cited by 887

Theta rhythm of navigation: Link between path integration and landmark navigation, episodic and semantic memory

Buzsáki, G. (2005) · Hippocampus · doi:10.1002/hipo.20113 · Cited by 872

Consciousness without a cerebral cortex: A challenge for neuroscience and medicine

Merker, B. (2007) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x07000891 · Cited by 868

On the Nature of Emotion Regulation

Campos, J. J., Frankel, C. B., & Camras, L. (2004) · Child Development · doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00681.x · Cited by 749

Affective Influences on the Attentional Dynamics Supporting Awareness.

Anderson, A. K. (2005) · Journal of Experimental Psychology: General · doi:10.1037/0096-3445.134.2.258 · Cited by 655

Relation of sympathy and personal distress to prosocial behavior: A multimethod study.

Eisenberg, N., Fabes, R. A., Miller, P. A., Fultz, J., Shell, R., Mathy, R. M., & Reno, R. R. (1989) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037/0022-3514.57.1.55 · Cited by 637

Mechanisms of change in dialectical behavior therapy: theoretical and empirical observations

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Automatic attention to emotional stimuli: Neural correlates

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A rational look at the emotional Stroop phenomenon: a generic slowdown, not a Stroop effect

Algom, D., Chajut, E., & Lev, S. (2004) · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · doi:10.1037/0096-3445.133.3.323 · Cited by 565

Differential prefrontal cortex and amygdala habituation to repeatedly presented emotional stimuli

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Audiovisual links in exogenous covert spatial orienting

Spence, C., & Driver, J. (1997) · Perception & Psychophysics · doi:10.3758/bf03206843 · Cited by 475

A psychophysiological analysis of fear modification using an automated desensitization procedure

Lang, P. J., Melamed, B. G., & Hart, J. (1970) · Journal of Abnormal Psychology · doi:10.1037/h0029875 · Cited by 463

Dissociation Following Traumatic Stress: Etiology and Treatment

Schauer, M., & Elbert, T. (2010) · Zeitschrift für Psychologie / Journal of Psychology · doi:10.1027/0044-3409/a000018 · Cited by 462

Processing of the arousal of subliminal and supraliminal emotional stimuli by the human amygdala

Gläscher, J., & Adolphs, R. (2003) · The Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.23-32-10274.2003 · Cited by 457

Threat and Defense

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Emotion, motivation, and the brain: Reflex foundations in animal and human research

Lang, P. J., & Davis, M. (2006) · Progress in Brain Research · doi:10.1016/s0079-6123(06)56001-7 · Cited by 410

Brain activity relating to the contingent negative variation: An fMRI investigation

Nagai, Y., Critchley, H. D., Featherstone, E., Fenwick, P. B. C., Trimble, M. R., & Dolan, R. J. (2004) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.10.036 · Cited by 377

Psychobiological mechanisms of socioeconomic differences in health

Kristenson, M., Eriksen, H. R., Sluiter, J. K., Starke, D., & Ursin, H. (2004) · Social Science & Medicine · doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(03)00353-8 · Cited by 351

Assessing the spatiotemporal evolution of neuronal activation with single-trial event-related potentials and functional MRI

Eichele, T., Specht, K., Moosmann, M., Jongsma, M. L. A., Quiroga, R. Q., Nordby, H., & Hugdahl, K. (2005) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0505508102 · Cited by 308

The neurophysics of consciousness

John, E. R. (2002) · Brain Research Reviews · doi:10.1016/s0165-0173(02)00142-x · Cited by 262

Enhancement of sleep slow waves: underlying mechanisms and practical consequences

Bellesi, M., Riedner, B. A., Garcia-Molina, G. N., Cirelli, C., & Tononi, G. (2014) · Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnsys.2014.00208 · Cited by 239

Infant visual habituation

Colombo, J., & Mitchell, D. W. (2009) · Neurobiology of Learning and Memory · doi:10.1016/j.nlm.2008.06.002 · Cited by 237

Autonomic specificity of basic emotions: Evidence from pattern classification and cluster analysis

Stephens, C. L., Christie, I. C., & Friedman, B. H. (2010) · Biological Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2010.03.014 · Cited by 209

Event-related brain potential correlates of the processing of novel visual and auditory information in autism

Courchesne, E., Lincoln, A. J., Kilman, B. A., & Galambos, R. (1985) · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · doi:10.1007/bf01837899 · Cited by 198

Eye-movements reduce the vividness, emotional valence and electrodermal arousal associated with negative autobiographical memories.

Barrowcliff, A. L., Gray, N. S., Freeman, T. C., & MacCulloch, M. J. (2004) · Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology · doi:10.1080/14789940410001673042 · Cited by 189

Psychological stress repeatedly blocks hippocampal primed burst potentiation in behaving rats

Diamond, D. M., Fleshner, M., & Rose, G. M. (1994) · Behavioural Brain Research · doi:10.1016/0166-4328(94)90032-9 · Cited by 182

Cardiac defense: From attention to action☆

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Respiratory and heart rate components of attention.

Porges, S. W., & Raskin, D. C. (1969) · Journal of Experimental Psychology · doi:10.1037/h0027921 · Cited by 173

Physiological arousal, dissonance, and attitude change: Evidence for a dissonance-arousal link and a "Don't remind me" effect.

Elkin, R. A., & Leippe, M. R. (1986) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037/0022-3514.51.1.55 · Cited by 160

Vigilance, arousal and habituation

Mackworth, J. F. (1968) · Psychological Review · doi:10.1037/h0025896 · Cited by 157

Startle Modulation in Children at Risk for Anxiety Disorders and/or Alcoholism

GRILLON, C., DIERKER, L., & MERIKANGAS, K. R. (1997) · Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · doi:10.1097/00004583-199707000-00014 · Cited by 135

The development of attention to simple and complex visual stimuli in infants: Behavioral and psychophysiological measures

Richards, J. E. (2010) · Developmental Review · doi:10.1016/j.dr.2010.03.005 · Cited by 133

The neural correlates of orienting: An integration of fMRI and skin conductance orienting

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A classically conditioned cocaine cue acquires greater control over motivated behavior in rats prone to attribute incentive salience to a food cue

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Dissociations of personally significant and task-relevant distractors inside and outside the focus of attention: A combined behavioral and psychophysiological study

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Exposure to a novel environment interferes with the induction of hippocampal primed burst potentiation in the behaving rat

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Horizontal rhythmical eye movements consistently diminish the arousal provoked by auditory stimuli.

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Pain perception, somatosensory event-related potentials and skin conductance responses to painful stimuli in high, mid, and low hypnotizable subjects: effects of differential pain reduction strategies ☆

De Pascalis, V., Magurano, M. R., & Bellusci, A. (1999) · Pain · doi:10.1016/s0304-3959(99)00157-8 · Cited by 88

Match and mismatch in the prediction of fear: I

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Context-specific habituation of the zenk gene response to song in adult zebra finches

KRUSE, A. (2004) · Neurobiology of Learning and Memory · doi:10.1016/j.nlm.2004.05.001 · Cited by 71

Relative Effectiveness of Emotion Induction Procedures and the Role of Personal Relevance in a Clinical Sample: A Comparison of Film, Images, and Music

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Tonic and phasic co-variation of peripheral arousal indices in infants

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Effects of MSH/ACTH 4--10 on memory, attention and endogenous hormone levels in women

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Visual search and the aging brain: Discerning the effects of age-related brain volume shrinkage on alertness, feature binding, and attentional control.

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Sensory and affective dimensions of phasic pain are indistinguishable in the self-report and psychophysiology of normal laboratory subjects

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Examining individual differences in infants’ habituation patterns using objective quantitative techniques

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Habituation, sensitization, and infants' responses to motherse speech

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The effects of failing to control pain: an experimental investigation

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Micro-analysis of infant looking in a naturalistic social setting: insights from biologically based models of attention

de Barbaro, K., Chiba, A., & Deák, G. O. (2011) · Developmental Science · doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01066.x · Cited by 34

Comparing methods for measuring peak look duration: Are individual differences observed on screen-based tasks also found in more ecologically valid contexts?

Wass, S. V. (2014) · Infant Behavior and Development · doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.04.007 · Cited by 32

Infant Attention to Dynamic Audiovisual Stimuli: Look Duration From 3 to 9 Months of Age

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Meta-attention: do we know when we are being distracted?

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Executive functioning in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: questioning the notion of planning deficits with heart rate reactivity

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