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題名 Task-irrelevant angry faces capture attention in visual search while modulated by resources.
作者 黃淑麗
Huang, Shwu-Lih; Chang, Yu-Chieh; Chen, Yu-Ju
貢獻者 心理系
日期 2011.06
上傳時間 25-Jun-2014 16:26:24 (UTC+8)
摘要 We investigated the attentional capture effect of emotional faces under sufficient or restricted attentional conditions. In a modified visual search paradigm, three kinds of schematic faces (angry, happy, and neutral) served as stimuli. Participants were instructed to search for a target face indicated by a dot and to respond to the dot`s position. In this design, the emotional content of the face is task-irrelevant and does not need to be attended. The results of Experiment 1 demonstrate that having an angry face as the target face elicited a faster response than did the neutral target face, and when the angry face is used as a distractor, the response to the target was delayed compared to the response with no such distractor. Experiment 2 included inverted faces to decrease emotional content; results showed that inversion of the faces reduced the effect of angry faces on the search performance. When attention was cued to a specific area in Experiment 3, the effect of angry faces outside of the cued area became weaker. In conclusion, the results indicate that a task-irrelevant angry face can capture attention beyond top-down control, but this effect is modulated by the availability of attentional resources.
關聯 Emotion, 11(3), 544-552
資料類型 article
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0022763
dc.contributor 心理系en_US
dc.creator (作者) 黃淑麗zh_TW
dc.creator (作者) Huang, Shwu-Lih; Chang, Yu-Chieh; Chen, Yu-Juen_US
dc.date (日期) 2011.06en_US
dc.date.accessioned 25-Jun-2014 16:26:24 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 25-Jun-2014 16:26:24 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 25-Jun-2014 16:26:24 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/66918-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) We investigated the attentional capture effect of emotional faces under sufficient or restricted attentional conditions. In a modified visual search paradigm, three kinds of schematic faces (angry, happy, and neutral) served as stimuli. Participants were instructed to search for a target face indicated by a dot and to respond to the dot`s position. In this design, the emotional content of the face is task-irrelevant and does not need to be attended. The results of Experiment 1 demonstrate that having an angry face as the target face elicited a faster response than did the neutral target face, and when the angry face is used as a distractor, the response to the target was delayed compared to the response with no such distractor. Experiment 2 included inverted faces to decrease emotional content; results showed that inversion of the faces reduced the effect of angry faces on the search performance. When attention was cued to a specific area in Experiment 3, the effect of angry faces outside of the cued area became weaker. In conclusion, the results indicate that a task-irrelevant angry face can capture attention beyond top-down control, but this effect is modulated by the availability of attentional resources.en_US
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dc.relation (關聯) Emotion, 11(3), 544-552en_US
dc.title (題名) Task-irrelevant angry faces capture attention in visual search while modulated by resources.en_US
dc.type (資料類型) articleen
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1037/a0022763en_US
dc.doi.uri (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0022763en_US