Social processing modulates the initial allocation of attention towards angry faces: evidence from the N2pc component.

ABSTRACT: Previous research has shown that attentional bias towards angry faces is moderated by the activation of a social processing mode. More specifically, reliable cueing effects for angry face cues in the dot-probe task only occurred when participants performed a task that required social processing of the target stimuli. However, cueing effects are a rather distal measure of covert shifts in spatial attention. Thus, it remains unclear whether the social processing mode modulates initial allocation of attention to or attentional disengagement from angry faces. In the present study, we used the N2pc, an event-related potential component, as an index of attentional shifts towards angry faces. Participants performed a dot-probe task with two different target conditions while the electroencephalogr

SUBMITTER: Wirth BE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10689156 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature