A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Emotional and neutral scenes in competition: Orienting, efficiency, and identification
Authors: Calvo MG, Nummenmaa L, Hyona J
Publisher: PSYCHOLOGY PRESS
Publication year: 2007
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Journal name in source: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Journal acronym: Q J EXP PSYCHOL
Volume: 60
Issue: 12
First page : 1585
Last page: 1593
Number of pages: 9
ISSN: 1747-0218
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17470210701515868
Abstract
To investigate preferential processing of emotional scenes competing for limited attentional resources with neutral scenes, prime pictures were presented briefly (450 ms), peripherally (5.2 degrees away from fixation), and simultaneously (one emotional and one neutral scene) versus singly. Primes were followed by a mask and a probe for recognition. Hit rate was higher for emotional than for neutral scenes in the dual- but not in the single-prime condition, and A' sensitivity decreased for neutral but not for emotional scenes in the dual- prime condition. This preferential processing involved both selective orienting and efficient encoding, as revealed, respectively, by a higher probability of first fixation on-and shorter saccade latencies to-emotional scenes and by shorter fixation time needed to accurately identify emotional scenes, in comparison with neutral scenes.
To investigate preferential processing of emotional scenes competing for limited attentional resources with neutral scenes, prime pictures were presented briefly (450 ms), peripherally (5.2 degrees away from fixation), and simultaneously (one emotional and one neutral scene) versus singly. Primes were followed by a mask and a probe for recognition. Hit rate was higher for emotional than for neutral scenes in the dual- but not in the single-prime condition, and A' sensitivity decreased for neutral but not for emotional scenes in the dual- prime condition. This preferential processing involved both selective orienting and efficient encoding, as revealed, respectively, by a higher probability of first fixation on-and shorter saccade latencies to-emotional scenes and by shorter fixation time needed to accurately identify emotional scenes, in comparison with neutral scenes.
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