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Prioritized Identification of Fearful Eyes during the Attentional Blink Is Not Automatic
The eye region conveys considerable information regarding an individual’s emotions, motivations, and intentions during interpersonal communication. Evidence suggests that the eye regions of an individual expressing emotions can capture attention more rapidly than the eye regions of an individual in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10605468/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37891761 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13101392 |
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author | Li, Shuaixia Hao, Bin Dang, Wei He, Weiqi Luo, Wenbo |
author_facet | Li, Shuaixia Hao, Bin Dang, Wei He, Weiqi Luo, Wenbo |
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description | The eye region conveys considerable information regarding an individual’s emotions, motivations, and intentions during interpersonal communication. Evidence suggests that the eye regions of an individual expressing emotions can capture attention more rapidly than the eye regions of an individual in a neutral affective state. However, how attentional resources affect the processing of emotions conveyed by the eye regions remains unclear. Accordingly, the present study employed a dual-target rapid serial visual presentation task: happy, neutral, or fearful eye regions were presented as the second target, with a temporal lag between two targets of 232 or 696 ms. Participants completed two tasks successively: Task 1 was to identify which species the upright eye region they had seen belonged to, and Task 2 was to identify what emotion was conveyed in the upright eye region. The behavioral results showed that the accuracy for fearful eye regions was lower than that for neutral eye regions under the condition of limited attentional resources; however, accuracy differences across the three types of eye regions did not reach significance under the condition of adequate attentional resources. These findings indicate that preferential processing of fearful expressions is not automatic but is modulated by available attentional resources. |
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spelling | pubmed-106054682023-10-28 Prioritized Identification of Fearful Eyes during the Attentional Blink Is Not Automatic Li, Shuaixia Hao, Bin Dang, Wei He, Weiqi Luo, Wenbo Brain Sci Article The eye region conveys considerable information regarding an individual’s emotions, motivations, and intentions during interpersonal communication. Evidence suggests that the eye regions of an individual expressing emotions can capture attention more rapidly than the eye regions of an individual in a neutral affective state. However, how attentional resources affect the processing of emotions conveyed by the eye regions remains unclear. Accordingly, the present study employed a dual-target rapid serial visual presentation task: happy, neutral, or fearful eye regions were presented as the second target, with a temporal lag between two targets of 232 or 696 ms. Participants completed two tasks successively: Task 1 was to identify which species the upright eye region they had seen belonged to, and Task 2 was to identify what emotion was conveyed in the upright eye region. The behavioral results showed that the accuracy for fearful eye regions was lower than that for neutral eye regions under the condition of limited attentional resources; however, accuracy differences across the three types of eye regions did not reach significance under the condition of adequate attentional resources. These findings indicate that preferential processing of fearful expressions is not automatic but is modulated by available attentional resources. MDPI 2023-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10605468/ /pubmed/37891761 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13101392 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Li, Shuaixia Hao, Bin Dang, Wei He, Weiqi Luo, Wenbo Prioritized Identification of Fearful Eyes during the Attentional Blink Is Not Automatic |
title | Prioritized Identification of Fearful Eyes during the Attentional Blink Is Not Automatic |
title_full | Prioritized Identification of Fearful Eyes during the Attentional Blink Is Not Automatic |
title_fullStr | Prioritized Identification of Fearful Eyes during the Attentional Blink Is Not Automatic |
title_full_unstemmed | Prioritized Identification of Fearful Eyes during the Attentional Blink Is Not Automatic |
title_short | Prioritized Identification of Fearful Eyes during the Attentional Blink Is Not Automatic |
title_sort | prioritized identification of fearful eyes during the attentional blink is not automatic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10605468/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37891761 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13101392 |
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