The present study investigated whether facial expressions modulate visual attention in 7-month-old infants. First, infants’ looking duration to individually presented fearful, happy, and novel facial expressions was compared ...

Adult-like attentional biases toward fearful faces can be observed in 7-month-old infants. It is possible, however, that infants merely allocate attention to simple features such as enlarged fearful eyes. In the present ...

Orienting of attention to emotionally negative stimuli is accompanied by rapid heart rate (HR) deceleration, reflecting enhanced attentional and sensory processing. We studied whether similar emotional modulation of cardiac ...