How prioritized is self-prioritization during stimulus processing?

How can infectious diseases be prioritized in public health? A standardized prioritization scheme for discussion.

the prevention and control of infectious diseases involves dealing with numerous pathogens, each of which poses a specific threat to public health. In order to rationally allocate the limited resources for research, surveillance and other activities, it is necessary to prioritize infectious diseases; how to do this is the dilemma that public-health experts face. the scientific literature abound...

Self-Prioritization in Perception 1 RUNNING HEAD: Self-Prioritization in Perception Self-prioritization beyond perception

Subconscious Stimulus Recognition and Processing During Sleep

During sleep, consciousness is reduced, associated with a diminished connection of the brain to the environment. This is due to the blocking of the thalamocortical pathway by inhibitory mechanisms. This “thalamic gating” during sleep, however, is not complete, but partial. The stream of information is considerably reduced, but the brain is not fully disconnected from the environment. An inspect...

Emotional-stimulus processing in trait anxiety is modulated by stimulus valence during neuroimaging of a working-memory task

Recent neuroimaging studies have examined the effects of anxiety on cognitive processing in the presence of emotional distractors. However, when the target stimuli themselves are emotional, it is unclear whether emotion acts as a distracting or enhancing influence. We predicted that anxiety levels would modulate the effect of emotion on neural activity in a valence-specific manner. In the curre...

Reward Sensitivity Is Associated with Brain Activity during Erotic Stimulus Processing

The behavioral approach system (BAS) from Gray's reinforcement sensitivity theory is a neurobehavioral system involved in the processing of rewarding stimuli that has been related to dopaminergic brain areas. Gray's theory hypothesizes that the functioning of reward brain areas is modulated by BAS-related traits. To test this hypothesis, we performed an fMRI study where participants viewed erot...