No prior entry for threat-related faces: evidence from temporal order judgments.

Previous research showed that threat-related faces, due to their intrinsic motivational relevance, capture attention more readily than neutral faces. Here we used a standard temporal order judgment (TOJ) task to assess whether negative (either angry or fearful) emotional faces, when competing with n...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	Antonio Schettino, Tom Loeys, Gilles Pourtois
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/6f82c526c87748f58177e90c91b29732
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:6f82c526c87748f58177e90c91b29732
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6f82c526c87748f58177e90c91b297322021-11-18T07:47:24ZNo prior entry for threat-related faces: evidence from temporal order judgments.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0062296https://doaj.org/article/6f82c526c87748f58177e90c91b297322013-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23646126/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Previous research showed that threat-related faces, due to their intrinsic motivational relevance, capture attention more readily than neutral faces. Here we used a standard temporal order judgment (TOJ) task to assess whether negative (either angry or fearful) emotional faces, when competing with neutral faces for attention selection, may lead to a prior entry effect and hence be perceived as appearing first, especially when uncertainty is high regarding the order of the two onsets. We did not find evidence for this conjecture across five different experiments, despite the fact that participants were invariably influenced by asynchronies in the respective onsets of the two competing faces in the pair, and could reliably identify the emotion in the faces. Importantly, by systematically varying task demands across experiments, we could rule out confounds related to suboptimal stimulus presentation or inappropriate task demands. These findings challenge the notion of an early automatic capture of attention by (negative) emotion. Future studies are needed to investigate whether the lack of systematic bias of attention by emotion is imputed to the primacy of a non-emotional cue to resolve the TOJ task, which in turn prevents negative emotion to exert an early bottom-up influence on the guidance of spatial and temporal attention.Antonio SchettinoTom LoeysGilles PourtoisPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 4, p e62296 (2013)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	Medicine R Science Q
spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Antonio Schettino Tom Loeys Gilles Pourtois No prior entry for threat-related faces: evidence from temporal order judgments.
description	Previous research showed that threat-related faces, due to their intrinsic motivational relevance, capture attention more readily than neutral faces. Here we used a standard temporal order judgment (TOJ) task to assess whether negative (either angry or fearful) emotional faces, when competing with neutral faces for attention selection, may lead to a prior entry effect and hence be perceived as appearing first, especially when uncertainty is high regarding the order of the two onsets. We did not find evidence for this conjecture across five different experiments, despite the fact that participants were invariably influenced by asynchronies in the respective onsets of the two competing faces in the pair, and could reliably identify the emotion in the faces. Importantly, by systematically varying task demands across experiments, we could rule out confounds related to suboptimal stimulus presentation or inappropriate task demands. These findings challenge the notion of an early automatic capture of attention by (negative) emotion. Future studies are needed to investigate whether the lack of systematic bias of attention by emotion is imputed to the primacy of a non-emotional cue to resolve the TOJ task, which in turn prevents negative emotion to exert an early bottom-up influence on the guidance of spatial and temporal attention.
format	article
author	Antonio Schettino Tom Loeys Gilles Pourtois
author_facet	Antonio Schettino Tom Loeys Gilles Pourtois
author_sort	Antonio Schettino
title	No prior entry for threat-related faces: evidence from temporal order judgments.
title_short	No prior entry for threat-related faces: evidence from temporal order judgments.
title_full	No prior entry for threat-related faces: evidence from temporal order judgments.
title_fullStr	No prior entry for threat-related faces: evidence from temporal order judgments.
title_full_unstemmed	No prior entry for threat-related faces: evidence from temporal order judgments.
title_sort	no prior entry for threat-related faces: evidence from temporal order judgments.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2013
url	https://doaj.org/article/6f82c526c87748f58177e90c91b29732
work_keys_str_mv	AT antonioschettino nopriorentryforthreatrelatedfacesevidencefromtemporalorderjudgments AT tomloeys nopriorentryforthreatrelatedfacesevidencefromtemporalorderjudgments AT gillespourtois nopriorentryforthreatrelatedfacesevidencefromtemporalorderjudgments
_version_	1718422979357966336

No prior entry for threat-related faces: evidence from temporal order judgments.

Ejemplares similares