Motivated attention and task relevance in the processing of cross-modally associated faces: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence.

ABSTRACT: It has repeatedly been shown that visually presented stimuli can gain additional relevance by their association with affective stimuli. Studies have shown effects of associated affect in event-related potentials (ERP) like the early posterior negativity (EPN), late positive complex (LPC), and even earlier components as the P1 or N170. However, findings are mixed as to the extent associated affect requires directed attention to the emotional quality of a stimulus and which ERP components are sensitive to task instructions during retrieval. In this preregistered study ( https://osf.io/ts4pb ), we tested cross-modal associations of vocal affect-bursts (positive, negative, neutral) to faces displaying neutral expressions in a flash-card-like learning task, in which participants studied face-vo

SUBMITTER: Ziereis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10545602 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature