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Emotion detection requires one to recognize the presence of facial cues that signal a target's specific emotional state. The salience of facial cues is influenced by where in the visual field a facial stimulus is presented. Emotion detection should be superior in the center of a participant's visual field than in the periphery because retinal cone density is at its peak. The current study examined younger adults' ability to detect emotion on facial stimuli presented briefly at one of five horizontal locations on a display,-20,-10, 0,+ 10,+ 20 degrees from center. Participants completed two emotion detection tasks, detecting angry and happy expressions amongst neutral ones in separate blocks. Overall, there were 960 trials (480 per task, 96 at each location). Concurrently, visually-evoked potentials were recorded using a 128-channel high-density electrode array and were time-locked to the visual onset of the facial stimuli. The …