Additionally, experimental findings implicate heightened emotional processing at the time of the event in intrusive memory development (Clark, Mackay, & Holmes, 2013, 2014).
Heightened perception and processing of threat are believed to constitute the genesis of delusions.
Heightened perception and processing of social threat has been suggested to constitute the genesis of persecutory delusions (Green and Phillips, 2004), explained at least in part by inappropriate engagement of the brain's fear system (Corlett et al., 2010).
Two recent studies suggest that interindividual differences in dream recall frequency might be related to different levels of sensitivity to auditory stimuli, with meaningful stimuli inducing more complex cognitive processing and heightened reactivity in participants with high as compared to participants with low dream recall frequency (Eichenlaub et al. 2013; Ruby et al. 2013).
Additionally, smokers demonstrated heightened N1/P1 amplitude during processing of addiction-related words, which was proposed to reflect increase in attention or early content-related and potentially automated addiction-cue-related information processing [ 19].
Within the social processes domain, preliminary evidence indicates that neural processing of social feedback, including heightened reactivity to exclusion and blunted response to social reward, may be related to depression vulnerability.
He added that a psychiatrist had recently diagnosed his "sensory processing disorder," a condition of heightened physical and mental sensitivity that Mr. Burroughs claimed causes him to retain experiences more vividly than the rest of us.
These differences might be related to heightened attentional processing [ 31], addiction memory involvement, and heightened sensitivity for drug-cues [ 19].
In the 20 mothers in the study, all primary caregivers, watching their babies triggered heightened activity in the brain's emotion-processing regions, particularly in a structure called the amygdala, which was five times more active than at baseline.
Among the insights here is that the disorder reflects not an inability to perceive the world, but a sensitivity to it — through heightened hearing, say — often resulting in the faulty processing of simultaneous information.
