Adaptive attunement of selective covert attention to evolutionary-relevant emotional visual scenes
| Autor: | Andrés Fernández-Martín, Manuel G. Calvo, Aida Gutiérrez-García, Juan I. Capafóns |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male genetic structures Emotions ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Automatic processing Stimulus (physiology) 050105 experimental psychology Attunement 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Sex Factors Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Attention Selective attention Communication business.industry 05 social sciences Eye movement Adaptation Physiological Biological Evolution Pattern Recognition Visual Social Perception Covert Peripheral vision Fixation (visual) Female Psychology business psychological phenomena and processes 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Consciousness and cognition. 51 |
| ISSN: | 1090-2376 |
| Popis: | We investigated selective attention to emotional scenes in peripheral vision, as a function of adaptive relevance of scene affective content for male and female observers. Pairs of emotional-neutral images appeared peripherally-with perceptual stimulus differences controlled-while viewers were fixating on a different stimulus in central vision. Early selective orienting was assessed by the probability of directing the first fixation towards either scene, and the time until first fixation. Emotional scenes selectively captured covert attention even when they were task-irrelevant, thus revealing involuntary, automatic processing. Sex of observers and specific emotional scene content (e.g., male-to-female-aggression, families and babies, etc.) interactively modulated covert attention, depending on adaptive priorities and goals for each sex, both for pleasant and unpleasant content. The attentional system exhibits domain-specific and sex-specific biases and attunements, probably rooted in evolutionary pressures to enhance reproductive and protective success. Emotional cues selectively capture covert attention based on their bio-social significance. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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