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Manuel G. Calvo

Manuel G. Calvo

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Psychology

D-Index
58
Citations
19563
World Ranking
3797
National Ranking
42

Overview

Manuel G. Calvo is affiliated with the University of La Laguna in Spain and conducts research primarily in the field of Neuroscience. Their work spans multiple subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Sensory Systems.

The primary research topics explored by Manuel G. Calvo include:

  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Multisensory Perception and Integration
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Among their recent published papers are:

  • "A smile hampers encoding and memory for non-happy eyes in a face: temporal dynamics and importance of initial fixation" (2025) published in Cognition & Emotion
  • "Misperception of non-Happy Facial Features: Overshadowing and Priming by a Smiling Mouth" (2025) published in The Journal of General Psychology

Manuel G. Calvo frequently collaborates with various co-authors, including:

  • Aida Gutiérrez-García
  • Andrés Fernández-Martín
  • Mario Del Líbano
  • Sonia Alguacil

The scientist's work has appeared in publication venues such as Cognition & Emotion and The Journal of General Psychology, reflecting a focus on both cognitive and emotional aspects within psychological research.

Best Publications

  • Anxiety and cognitive performance: Attentional control theory.

    Michael W. Eysenck;Nazanin Derakshan;Rita Santos;Manuel G. Calvo

  • Anxiety and Performance: The Processing Efficiency Theory

    Michael W. Eysenck;Manuel G. Calvo

  • Facial expressions of emotion (KDEF): Identification under different display-duration conditions

    Manuel G. Calvo;Daniel Lundqvist

  • Eye movement assessment of selective attentional capture by emotional pictures.

    Lauri Nummenmaa;Jukka Hyönä;Manuel G. Calvo

  • Detection of emotional faces: salient physical features guide effective visual search.

    Manuel G. Calvo;Lauri Nummenmaa

  • Gaze Patterns When Looking at Emotional Pictures: Motivationally Biased Attention

    Manuel G. Calvo;Peter J. Lang

  • Perceptual and affective mechanisms in facial expression recognition: An integrative review

    Manuel G. Calvo;Lauri Nummenmaa

  • Recognition advantage of happy faces: tracing the neurocognitive processes.

    Manuel G. Calvo;David Beltrán

  • Time course of attentional bias to emotional scenes in anxiety: Gaze direction and duration

    Manuel G. Calvo;Pedro Avero

  • Early vigilance and late avoidance of threat processing: Repressive coping versus low/high anxiety

    Manuel G. Calvo;Michael W. Eysenck

  • Facilitated detection of angry faces: Initial orienting and processing efficiency

    Manuel G. Calvo;Pedro Avero;Daniel Lundqvist

  • Parafoveal semantic processing of emotional visual scenes.

    Manuel G. Calvo;Peter J. Lang

  • Facial expression recognition in peripheral versus central vision: role of the eyes and the mouth

    Manuel G. Calvo;Andrés Fernández-Martín;Lauri Nummenmaa

  • Working memory and inferences: evidence from eye fixations during reading.

    Manuel G. Calvo

  • Brain lateralization of holistic versus analytic processing of emotional facial expressions.

    Manuel G. Calvo;David Beltrán

  • Visual search of emotional faces: The role of affective content and featural distinctiveness

    Manuel G. Calvo;Hipólito Marrero

  • Selective interpretation in anxiety: Uncertainty for threatening events

    Manuel G. Calvo;M. Dolores Castillo

  • Dissociation between recognition and detection advantage for facial expressions: a meta-analysis.

    Lauri Nummenmaa;Manuel G. Calvo

  • Recognition of Facial Expressions of Emotion is Related to their Frequency in Everyday Life

    Manuel G. Calvo;Aida Gutiérrez-García;Andrés Fernández-Martín;Lauri Nummenmaa

  • Phonological working memory and reading in test anxiety.

    Manuel G. Calvo;Michael W. Eysenck

  • Working memory capacity and time course of predictive inferences.

    Adelina Estevez;Manuel G. Calvo

Frequent Co-Authors

Lauri Nummenmaa
Lauri Nummenmaa Turku University Hospital
Michael W. Eysenck
Michael W. Eysenck Royal Holloway University of London
Jukka Hyönä
Jukka Hyönä University of Turku
Manuel Carreiras
Manuel Carreiras Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Attila Szabo
Attila Szabo Eötvös Loránd University
Nazanin Derakshan
Nazanin Derakshan Birkbeck, University of London
Justin Kenardy
Justin Kenardy University of Queensland
Norman S. Endler
Norman S. Endler York University
Francisco Esteves
Francisco Esteves Catholic University of Portugal
Tian P. S. Oei
Tian P. S. Oei University of Queensland

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