ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2019
Early spatial attention deployment toward and away from aggressive voices.
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- Intact Neural and Behavioral Processing of Vocal Emotional Expressions in Men with Autism.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Reduced neural sensitivity to emotional faces and voices in preterm five-year-olds: a comparative study.BMC medicine · 2026Article
- Pupil- and gaze dynamics track emotion content in naturalistic speech.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Exploring sex differences in auditory saliency: the role of acoustic characteristics in bottom-up attention.BMC neuroscience · 2024Article
- The Sound of Emotion: Pinpointing Emotional Voice Processing Via Frequency Tagging EEG.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Auditory and cross-modal attentional bias toward positive natural sounds: Behavioral and ERP evidence.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Sound localization and auditory selective attention in school-aged children with ADHD.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Vocal threat enhances visual perception as a function of attention and sex.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2019Article
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Abstract
Salient vocalizations, especially aggressive voices, are believed to attract attention due to an automatic threat detection system. However, studies assessing the temporal dynamics of auditory spatial attention to aggressive voices are missing. Using event-related potential markers of auditory spatial attention (N2ac and LPCpc), we show that attentional processing of threatening vocal signals is enhanced at two different stages of auditory processing. As early as 200 ms post-stimulus onset, attentional orienting/engagement is enhanced for threatening as compared to happy vocal signals. Subsequently, as early as 400 ms post-stimulus onset, the reorienting of auditory attention to the center of the screen (or disengagement from the target) is enhanced. This latter effect is consistent with the need to optimize perception by balancing the intake of stimulation from left and right auditory space. Our results extend the scope of theories from the visual to the auditory modality by showing that threatening stimuli also bias early spatial attention in the auditory modality. Attentional enhancement was only present in female and not in male participants.
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