Samuel Silva
Biographic Data
| ID | 3899497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Silva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Silva |
| SIGNATURE | SILVA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aveiro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9858-8249 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Sexual Arousal in the Unconscious Mind
Sexual arousal is a multidimensional construct encompassing physiological, emotional, motivational, and cognitive components. The information-processing models of sexual response posit that sexual arousal can be unconsciously triggered by exposure to sexual stimuli. However, the empirical research supporting this claim is limited and largely based on the heterosexual population. Therefore, the current study aimed to explore the pre-attentional pr…
How Fast Do Sexually Explicit Stimuli Reach Awareness? Evidence From a Breaking Continuous Flash Suppression Task
Human sexual response is a complex phenomenon lacking empirical evidence on its psychological underpinnings. Information-processing models of sexual response consider that the sexual response emerges before individuals’ awareness, as indexed by their reaction to sexual stimuli presented out of consciousness. Yet, that assumption lacks empirical support, and the presentation of findings has been biased toward positive results. Accordingly, the cur…
Cross-Country Analysis of Children that Work
Child labor is a long-lasting problem in less-developed countries. It limits education outcomes, human capital development, and prolongs poverty. As a multicausal problem, contextual differences play a major role in the difficulty of eradicating. This paper employs novel primary data collected across seven countries with child labor prevalence and in very different contexts. The research questions explore how family income and education of the he…
The angry versus happy recognition advantage
Slower access to visual awareness but otherwise intact implicit perception of emotional faces in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders
“Threat-unrelated” properties
In our previous work (Gomes, Soares, Silva, & Silva, 2018), we evidenced that snakes (vs. birds), an archetypal threat-related stimulus, have an advantage in accessing visual awareness during continuous flash suppression. This advantage was observed when the images were filtered in low spatial frequency (LSF) but not in high spatial frequency and interpreted as supporting the role of a subcortical pathway (superior colliculus-pulvinar) to the amy…
Unconscious influence over executive control
Beware the serpent
Mind the snake
The privileged processing of threat stimuli, even in the absence of visual awareness, has been associated with a subcortical superior colliculus (SC)-pulvinar pathway to the amygdala, bypassing the visual cortex. However, this has been heavily disputed by studies showing that cortical activity cannot be ruled out in fear processing. A recent study using continuous flash suppression (CFS) showed that rapid detection of fear faces relies on high sp…
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Beware the serpent
Mind the snake
The privileged processing of threat stimuli, even in the absence of visual awareness, has been associated with a subcortical superior colliculus (SC)-pulvinar pathway to the amygdala, bypassing the visual cortex. However, this has been heavily disputed by studies showing that cortical activity cannot be ruled out in fear processing. A recent study using continuous flash suppression (CFS) showed that rapid detection of fear faces relies on high sp…
Unconscious influence over executive control
“Threat-unrelated” properties
In our previous work (Gomes, Soares, Silva, & Silva, 2018), we evidenced that snakes (vs. birds), an archetypal threat-related stimulus, have an advantage in accessing visual awareness during continuous flash suppression. This advantage was observed when the images were filtered in low spatial frequency (LSF) but not in high spatial frequency and interpreted as supporting the role of a subcortical pathway (superior colliculus-pulvinar) to the amy…
Slower access to visual awareness but otherwise intact implicit perception of emotional faces in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders
The angry versus happy recognition advantage
Cross-Country Analysis of Children that Work
Child labor is a long-lasting problem in less-developed countries. It limits education outcomes, human capital development, and prolongs poverty. As a multicausal problem, contextual differences play a major role in the difficulty of eradicating. This paper employs novel primary data collected across seven countries with child labor prevalence and in very different contexts. The research questions explore how family income and education of the he…
Sexual Arousal in the Unconscious Mind
Sexual arousal is a multidimensional construct encompassing physiological, emotional, motivational, and cognitive components. The information-processing models of sexual response posit that sexual arousal can be unconsciously triggered by exposure to sexual stimuli. However, the empirical research supporting this claim is limited and largely based on the heterosexual population. Therefore, the current study aimed to explore the pre-attentional pr…
How Fast Do Sexually Explicit Stimuli Reach Awareness? Evidence From a Breaking Continuous Flash Suppression Task
Human sexual response is a complex phenomenon lacking empirical evidence on its psychological underpinnings. Information-processing models of sexual response consider that the sexual response emerges before individuals’ awareness, as indexed by their reaction to sexual stimuli presented out of consciousness. Yet, that assumption lacks empirical support, and the presentation of findings has been biased toward positive results. Accordingly, the cur…
Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Neuroscience (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (4 works) · Perception (4 works) · Face Recognition and Perception (3 works) · Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (3 works) · Visual perception (3 works) · Visual perception and processing mechanisms (3 works) · Amygdala (2 works)