Neurophysiological evidence for emotional attention modulation depending on goal relevance.

ABSTRACT: Although threat-related stimuli can capture attention automatically, recent findings have challenged this assumption by showing that goal rather than threat can be prioritized and eventually guide attentional control. In this study, we used high density electroencephalography (EEG) in 40 participants while peripheral emotional faces (either fear or happiness) were either goal-relevant or irrelevant during a dot-probe task (DPT). The use of peripheral vision was established by eye-tracking. Both the face specific N170 component and the subsequent Early Posterior Negativity (EPN) were enhanced by fear at the cue level, yet the latter one only when fear was goal relevant. Importantly, we found that early on following target onset at the P1 level, both value and goal relevance drove spatial at

SUBMITTER: Xue X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11978912 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature