Searching for emotion: A top-down set governs attentional orienting to facial expressions
| Autor: | Bruce K. Christensen, Stephanie Catherine Goodhew, Nicole Tan, Hannah Delchau, Hana Yabuki, Kavindu H. Bandara, Ottmar V. Lipp, Richard O'Kearney |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Emotions Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Anger 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Perception Orientation Developmental and Educational Psychology Reaction Time Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Attention Set (psychology) media_common Visual search Cued speech Facial expression 05 social sciences Attentional control General Medicine Expression (mathematics) Facial Expression Female Cues Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Photic Stimulation Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Acta psychologica. 204 |
| ISSN: | 1873-6297 |
| Popis: | Research indicates that humans orient attention toward facial expressions of emotion. Orienting to facial expressions has typically been conceptualised as due to bottom-up attentional capture. However, this overlooks the contributions of top-down attention and selection history. In the present study, across four experiments, these three attentional processes were differentiated using a variation of the dot-probe task, in which participants were cued to attend to a happy or angry face on each trial. Results show that attention toward facial expressions was not exclusively driven by bottom-up attentional capture; instead, participants could shift their attention toward both happy and angry faces in a top-down manner. This effect was not found when the faces were inverted, indicating that top-down attention relies on holistic processing of the face. In addition, no evidence of selection history was found (i.e., no improvement on repeated trials or blocks of trials in which the task was to orient to the same expression). Altogether, these results suggest that humans can use top-down attentional control to rapidly orient attention to emotional faces. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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