The present study investigated the use of redundant information for attentional selection of a visual object. Each display contained two overlapping objects, and participants had to report the color of the occluding object. A baseline condition did not ...

We tested the hypothesis that African Americans would show greater anxiety than their European American counterparts when entering laboratory research settings. We examined subjective and physiological anxiety measures obtained both inside and outside the ...

A fundamental aspect of successful social interaction is the fact people do not always experience or express emotions to their fullest extent but instead control them in a context-dependent manner. Emotion regulation involves the manipulation of ...

The catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) Val¹⁵⁸Met polymorphism (rs4680) moderates dopamine degradation in the prefrontal cortex. It has been shown that the Met allele is associated with an increased reactivity to negative stimuli. With regard to the tonic-...

Older individuals often find it hard to communicate under difficult listening conditions, for example, in the presence of background noise or competing speakers. However, there is increasing evidence that this age-related decline in speech perception can ...