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SUBMITTER: Del Giudice R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4956258 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Del Giudice Renata R Blume Christine C Wislowska Malgorzata M Wielek Tomasz T Heib Dominik P J DP Schabus Manuel M
PloS one 20160721 7
Emotionally relevant stimuli and in particular anger are, due to their evolutionary relevance, often processed automatically and able to modulate attention independent of conscious access. Here, we tested whether attention allocation is enhanced when auditory stimuli are uttered by an angry voice. We recorded EEG and presented healthy individuals with a passive condition where unfamiliar names as well as the subject's own name were spoken both with an angry and neutral prosody. The active condit ...[more]