The goal-relevance of affective stimuli is dynamically represented in affective experience.

ABSTRACT: Affect is a continuous and temporally dependent process that represents an individual's ongoing relationship with its environment. However, there is a lack of evidence on how factors defining the dynamic sensory environment modulate changes in momentary affective experience. Here, we show that goal-dependent relevance of stimuli is a key factor shaping momentary affect in a dynamic context. Participants (N = 83) viewed sequentially presented images and reported their momentary affective experience after every fourth stimulus. Relevance was manipulated through an attentional task that rendered each image either task-relevant or task-irrelevant. Computational models were fitted to trial-by-trial affective responses to capture the key dynamic parameters explaining momentary affective e

SUBMITTER: Asutay E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8611340 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature