More than a feeling: The emotional attentional blink relies on non-emotional "pop out," but is weak compared to the attentional blink.

ABSTRACT: The attentional blink (AB) reveals temporal limits of goal-driven attention: the second of two proximate targets presented in a rapid stream of non-targets is often missed. In the emotional AB (EAB, also termed emotion-induced blindness), an emotionally valenced distractor replacing the first target yields a similar blink. However, the AB and EAB have not been adequately compared, and thus the extent of their mechanistic similarity remains unclear. The current study interleaved AB and EAB trials using identical stimuli in the same participants and observed that the AB is consistently larger than the EAB. Moreover, the four main experiments varied in both target-defining features (semantic vs. perceptual) and EAB distractor salience (emotion alone vs. emotion plus physical distinctiveness);

SUBMITTER: Santacroce LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10014141 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature