Sentence examples for privileged processing from inspiring English sources

Indeed, it has been proposed that threat stimuli capture and hold attention in a manner unlike that of non-emotional stimuli (e.g., Öhman, 1996; Öhman, Lundqvist, & Esteves, 2001), have a privileged processing status (Vuilleumier & Schwartz, 2001) and, controversially, can be processed independently of top-down attention (Öhman, 2002; but see also Pessoa, Kastner, & Ungerlieder, 2002).

Sagi and Julesz proposed such privileged processing stage for the case of subitizing [9].

The lifelong importance of face detection, which offers cues to mind distinct from other cues to animacy, is reflected in its privileged processing in the brain.

Neurobiologically, this is implemented by inducing long-lasting plasticity in specific cortico-striatal synapses, which results in privileged processing of the reinforced cortico-striatal inputs in the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamo cortical re-entry loops (Calabresi et al., 2007).

Sloutsky and Napolitano (2003) speculated that this privileged processing of the auditory stimuli in the early years may have survival value as "it would be detrimental to a species' survival to receive all possible sensory information" (p.832).

Specifically, our main hypothesis was as follows: if threatening faces have a privileged processing status, then participants' accuracy in target-identification will be enhanced if the second target in the RSVP stream is a threatening face, rather than a neutral or positive face.

This result suggests that emotional information has privileged access to processing resources, possibly leading to better memory formation.

The relevance of emotional stimuli to threat and survival confers a privileged role in their processing.

Privileged information in text processing domain consists of information besides traditional term frequency (TF) or term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) [25].

Conversely, stimulus induced high-frequency gamma oscillations for attended neuronal representation are enhanced [ 1 4] and this is thought to increase their efficacy in driving postsynaptic neurons engendering privileged access to further processing stages [ 1, 23].

In any case, we argue that our data are best accounted for by a model of WM in which a single item has privileged access to cognitive processing, and that perceptual selective attention does not underlie this privileged state in WM.