RT Journal Article
T1 Attentional load affects automatic emotional processing: evidence from event-related potentials
A1 Doallo Pesado, Sonia
A1 Rodríguez Holguín, Socorro
A1 Cadaveira Mahía, Fernando
K1 Attention
K1 Emotion
K1 Event-related potentials
K1 International Affective Picture System
K1 IAPS
K1 Load
K1 P200
K1 Atención
K1 Emoción
K1 Potenciais evocados
K1 Carga
K1 ERPs
AB One open question on the relation between attention and emotion concerns the automatic processing of emotional visual stimuli outside the focus of attention. This study examined to what extent the emotional processing at unattended locations is modulated by the processing load at attended locations. Event-related potentials were measured to task-irrelevant unpleasant and neutral pictures brie£y presented at peripheral locations while participants performed a visual central task varying in load (low and high load). Unpleasant pictures elicited larger amplitudes of N1-P2 at parietoccipital and occipital sites than that of neutral pictures. This effect was only significant in the low-load condition. Data suggest that brain responses to affective value of task-irrelevant peripheral pictures are modulated by attentional load at fixation.
PB Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
SN 0959-4965
YR 2006
FD 2006
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/17937
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/17937
LA eng
NO Doallo S; Rodríguez Holguín S; Cadaveira F. (2006). Attentional load affects automatic emotional processing: evidence from event-related potentials. NeuroReport, 17, 1797-1801
NO This study was supported by Spain’s Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (SEJ2004-01377) and Xunta de Galicia (PGIDT05PXI21101PN)
DS Minerva
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