Social vision: Sustained perceptual enhancement of affective facial cues in social anxiety

►Faces flickering at 17.5 Hz evoke reliable visual cortical steady-state potentials. ►Stronger visual cortical response to emotional than neutral faces in social anxiety. ►Visual sensitivity to emotional faces increases linearly with social anxiety severity. ►Visual hypersensitivity to emotional faces in social anxiety is temporally sustained. ►Social anxiety is marked by hypersensitivity to both aversive and pleasant faces.