Gilles Pourtois
Biographic Data
| ID | 1752767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gilles Pourtois |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gilles |
| FAMILY NAME | Pourtois |
| SIGNATURE | POURTOIS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5109-2801 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hypervigilance strikes a balance between external and internal attention
Modulatory effects of goal relevance on emotional attention reveal that fear has a distinct value
Threat-related stimuli can capture attention. However, it remains debated whether this capture is automatic or not. To address this question, we compared attentional biases to emotional faces using a dot-probe task (DPT) where emotion was never goal-relevant (Experiment 1) or made directly task-relevant by means of induction trials (Experiments 2-3). Moreover, the contingency between the DPT and induction trials was either partial (Experiment 2) …
One hundred years of EEG for brain and behaviour research
Reduced flexibility of cognitive control
The rise of affectivism
Learning biases to angry and happy faces during Pavlovian aversive conditioning
Learning biases in Pavlovian aversive conditioning have been found in response to specific categories of threat-relevant stimuli, such as snakes or angry faces. This has been suggested to reflect a selective predisposition to preferentially learn to associate stimuli that provided threats to survival across evolution with aversive outcomes. Here, we contrast with this perspective by highlighting that both threatening (angry faces) and rewarding (…
Fake feedback on pain tolerance impacts proactive versus reactive control strategies
Evaluative priming reveals dissociable effects of cognitive versus physiological anxiety on action monitoring
Performance monitoring enables the rapid detection of mismatches between goals or intentions and actions, as well as subsequent behavioral adjustment by means of enhanced attention control. These processes are not encapsulated, but they are readily influenced by affective or motivational variables, including negative affect. Here we tested the prediction that worry, the cognitive component of anxiety, and arousal, its physiological counterpart, c…
Erroneous and correct actions have a different affective valence
The accuracy of actions is swiftly determined through specific monitoring brain systems. Event-related potential (ERP) studies have shown that error commission is associated with the generation of the error-related negativity (ERN/Ne), whereas correct actions are associated with the correct-related negativity (CRN). Although the exact functional meaning of the ERN/Ne (and CRN) component remains debated, some authors have suggested that it reflect…
Negative affective state mimics effects of perceptual load on spatial perception
Recent electrophysiological evidence has shown that perceptual load and negative affective state can produce very similar, early-attention gating effects in early visual areas, modulating the processing of peripheral stimuli. Here we assessed the question of whether or not these modulatory effects of perceptual load and negative affect (NA) lead to comparable changes in spatial perception abilities, which could be captured at the behavioral level…
Revisiting Snodgrass and Vanderwart's Object Pictorial Set
Theories of object recognition differ to the extent that they consider object representations as being mediated only by the shape of the object, or shape and surface details, if surface details are part of the representation. In particular, it has been suggested that color information may be helpful at recognizing objects only in very special cases, but not during basic-level object recognition in good viewing conditions. In this study, we collec…
Revisiting Snodgrass and Vanderwart's Object Pictorial Set
Theories of object recognition differ to the extent that they consider object representations as being mediated only by the shape of the object, or shape and surface details, if surface details are part of the representation. In particular, it has been suggested that color information may be helpful at recognizing objects only in very special cases, but not during basic-level object recognition in good viewing conditions. In this study, we collec…
Negative affective state mimics effects of perceptual load on spatial perception
Recent electrophysiological evidence has shown that perceptual load and negative affective state can produce very similar, early-attention gating effects in early visual areas, modulating the processing of peripheral stimuli. Here we assessed the question of whether or not these modulatory effects of perceptual load and negative affect (NA) lead to comparable changes in spatial perception abilities, which could be captured at the behavioral level…
Erroneous and correct actions have a different affective valence
The accuracy of actions is swiftly determined through specific monitoring brain systems. Event-related potential (ERP) studies have shown that error commission is associated with the generation of the error-related negativity (ERN/Ne), whereas correct actions are associated with the correct-related negativity (CRN). Although the exact functional meaning of the ERN/Ne (and CRN) component remains debated, some authors have suggested that it reflect…
Evaluative priming reveals dissociable effects of cognitive versus physiological anxiety on action monitoring
Performance monitoring enables the rapid detection of mismatches between goals or intentions and actions, as well as subsequent behavioral adjustment by means of enhanced attention control. These processes are not encapsulated, but they are readily influenced by affective or motivational variables, including negative affect. Here we tested the prediction that worry, the cognitive component of anxiety, and arousal, its physiological counterpart, c…
Fake feedback on pain tolerance impacts proactive versus reactive control strategies
Learning biases to angry and happy faces during Pavlovian aversive conditioning
Learning biases in Pavlovian aversive conditioning have been found in response to specific categories of threat-relevant stimuli, such as snakes or angry faces. This has been suggested to reflect a selective predisposition to preferentially learn to associate stimuli that provided threats to survival across evolution with aversive outcomes. Here, we contrast with this perspective by highlighting that both threatening (angry faces) and rewarding (…
The rise of affectivism
Reduced flexibility of cognitive control
One hundred years of EEG for brain and behaviour research
Hypervigilance strikes a balance between external and internal attention
Modulatory effects of goal relevance on emotional attention reveal that fear has a distinct value
Threat-related stimuli can capture attention. However, it remains debated whether this capture is automatic or not. To address this question, we compared attentional biases to emotional faces using a dot-probe task (DPT) where emotion was never goal-relevant (Experiment 1) or made directly task-relevant by means of induction trials (Experiments 2-3). Moreover, the contingency between the DPT and induction trials was either partial (Experiment 2) …
Psychology (11 works) · Cognitive psychology (10 works) · Neuroscience (8 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (6 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (3 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works)