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Rewarding outcomes enhance attentional capture and delay attentional disengagement

Attentional capture and disengagement are distinct process involved in attentional orienting. Most current studies have examined either the process of attentional capture or disengagement by manipulating stimuli associated with either positive (gains) or negative outcomes (losses). However, few stud...

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Autores principales: Yan, Minmin, Meng, Zong, Hu, Na, Chen, Antao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10441522/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37609441
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15868
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author Yan, Minmin
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Chen, Antao
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description Attentional capture and disengagement are distinct process involved in attentional orienting. Most current studies have examined either the process of attentional capture or disengagement by manipulating stimuli associated with either positive (gains) or negative outcomes (losses). However, few studies have investigated whether attentional capture and disengagement are modulated by reward and loss outcomes. In the current study, we want to examine whether positive or negative outcomes could modulate distinguishing process of attentional capture and disengagement. Here, we manipulated different colored singleton stimuli associated with reward or loss outcomes; these stimuli were either presented at the center of screen or at the peripheral location. The participants’ task was to search the target and identify the orientation of line segment in target as quickly as possible. The results showed that people had difficulty disengaging from a central reward-distractor, in comparison to loss- and neutral-distractor when target was presented at peripheral location. Similarly, peripheral reward-distractor captured more attention than loss- and neutral-distractor when target was presented at the center of screen after central fixation disappeared. Through our discoveries, we can conclude that positive rewards can increase attentional capture and delay attentional disengagement in healthy people.
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spelling pubmed-104415222023-08-22 Rewarding outcomes enhance attentional capture and delay attentional disengagement Yan, Minmin Meng, Zong Hu, Na Chen, Antao PeerJ Ophthalmology Attentional capture and disengagement are distinct process involved in attentional orienting. Most current studies have examined either the process of attentional capture or disengagement by manipulating stimuli associated with either positive (gains) or negative outcomes (losses). However, few studies have investigated whether attentional capture and disengagement are modulated by reward and loss outcomes. In the current study, we want to examine whether positive or negative outcomes could modulate distinguishing process of attentional capture and disengagement. Here, we manipulated different colored singleton stimuli associated with reward or loss outcomes; these stimuli were either presented at the center of screen or at the peripheral location. The participants’ task was to search the target and identify the orientation of line segment in target as quickly as possible. The results showed that people had difficulty disengaging from a central reward-distractor, in comparison to loss- and neutral-distractor when target was presented at peripheral location. Similarly, peripheral reward-distractor captured more attention than loss- and neutral-distractor when target was presented at the center of screen after central fixation disappeared. Through our discoveries, we can conclude that positive rewards can increase attentional capture and delay attentional disengagement in healthy people. PeerJ Inc. 2023-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10441522/ /pubmed/37609441 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15868 Text en ©2023 Yan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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Yan, Minmin
Meng, Zong
Hu, Na
Chen, Antao
Rewarding outcomes enhance attentional capture and delay attentional disengagement
title Rewarding outcomes enhance attentional capture and delay attentional disengagement
title_full Rewarding outcomes enhance attentional capture and delay attentional disengagement
title_fullStr Rewarding outcomes enhance attentional capture and delay attentional disengagement
title_full_unstemmed Rewarding outcomes enhance attentional capture and delay attentional disengagement
title_short Rewarding outcomes enhance attentional capture and delay attentional disengagement
title_sort rewarding outcomes enhance attentional capture and delay attentional disengagement
topic Ophthalmology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10441522/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37609441
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15868
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