Cargando…

Threat But Not Arousal Narrows Attention: Evidence from Pupil Dilation and Saccade Control

It has been shown that negative affect causes attentional narrowing. According to Easterbrook’s (1959) influential hypothesis this effect is driven by the withdrawal motivation inherent to negative emotions and might be related to increases in arousal. We investigated whether valence-unspecific incr...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: van Steenbergen, Henk, Band, Guido P. H., Hommel, Bernhard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Research Foundation 2011
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3204575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22059081
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00281