TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotion facilitates perception and potentiates the perceptual benefits of attention
AU - Phelps, Elizabeth A.
AU - Ling, Sam
AU - Carrasco, Marisa
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the observers who participated in this study. In addition, we would like to thank B. Holmes and D. Valenzuela for assistance in conducting the study, K. Choi for statistical consulting, and A.K. Anderson, M.R. Delgado, A.M. Giordano, J. Gobell, T.S. Liu, F. Loula, and F. Pestilli for helpful discussions. This work was funded by a National Science Foundation grant to M.C. and a National Institute of Mental Health grant to E.A.P.
PY - 2006/4
Y1 - 2006/4
N2 - Does emotion affect how people see? We investigated the effects of emotion and attention, as well as their conjoint effect, on contrast sensitivity, a dimension of early vision. We manipulated the emotional valence and the attentional distribution of cues preceding a target stimulus and asked observers to judge the orientation of the target as contrast varied. This study provides the first behavioral evidence that (a) emotion enhances contrast sensitivity irrespective of attention and (b) emotion potentiates the effect of attention on contrast sensitivity.
AB - Does emotion affect how people see? We investigated the effects of emotion and attention, as well as their conjoint effect, on contrast sensitivity, a dimension of early vision. We manipulated the emotional valence and the attentional distribution of cues preceding a target stimulus and asked observers to judge the orientation of the target as contrast varied. This study provides the first behavioral evidence that (a) emotion enhances contrast sensitivity irrespective of attention and (b) emotion potentiates the effect of attention on contrast sensitivity.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01701.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01701.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 16623685
AN - SCOPUS:33645090657
SN - 0956-7976
VL - 17
SP - 292
EP - 299
JO - Psychological Science
JF - Psychological Science
IS - 4
ER -