Behavioral and EEG Measures Show no Amplifying Effects of Shared Attention on Attention or Memory.

ABSTRACT: Shared attention experiments examine the potential differences in function or behavior when stimuli are experienced alone or in the presence of others, and when simultaneous attention of the participants to the same stimulus or set is involved. Previous work has found enhanced reactions to emotional stimuli in social situations, yet these changes might represent enhanced communicative or motivational purposes. This study examines whether viewing emotional stimuli in the presence of another person influences attention to or memory for the stimulus. Participants passively viewed emotionally-valenced stimuli while completing another task (counting flowers). Each participant performed this task both alone and in a shared attention condition (simultaneously with another person in the same room)

SUBMITTER: Mairon N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7242358 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature