TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Fear selectively modulates visual mental imagery and visual perception
JO  - Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
A1  - Borst, Gregoire
A1  - Kosslyn, Stephen M.
SP  - 833
EP  - 839
VL  - 63
IS  - 5
N2  - Emotions have been shown to modulate low-level visual processing of simple stimuli. In this study, we investigate whether emotions only modulate processing of visual representations created from direct visual inputs or whether they also modulate representations that underlie visual mental images. Our results demonstrate that when participants visualize or look at the global shape of written words (low-spatial-frequency visual information), the prior brief presentation of fearful faces enhances processing, whereas when participants visualize or look at details of written words (high-spatial-frequency visual information), the prior brief presentation of fearful faces impairs processing. This study demonstrates that emotions have similar effects on low-level processing of visual percepts and of internal representations created on the basis of information stored in long-term memory.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1747-0218
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470211003602420
ID  - ref1
ER  -