Emotion-Guided Attention Impacts Deliberate Multi-Evidence Emotion-Related Perceptual Decision-Making.

ABSTRACT: Emotion-guided endogenous attention (e.g., attending to fear) may play a crucial role in determining how humans integrate emotional evidence from various sources when assessing the general emotional tenor of the environment. For instance, what emotion a presenter focuses on can shape their perception of the overall emotion of the room. While there is an increasing interest in understanding how endogenous attention affects emotion perception, existing studies have largely focused on single-stimulus perception. There is limited understanding of how endogenous attention influences emotion evidence integration across multiple sources. To investigate this question, human participants (N = 40) were invited to judge the average emotion across an array of faces ranging from fearful to happy. Endog

SUBMITTER: Ngai HHT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12034915 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature