Emotional Attention : Uncovering the Mechanisms of Affective Biases in Perception  

Oleh:

Vuilleumier, Patrik ; Huang, Yang-Ming

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Current Directions in Psychological Science vol. 18 no. 03 (Jun. 2009), page 148-152.
Topik: Emotion; Attention; Awareness; Top-Down Control; Automaticity; Personality; Affective Neuroscience
Fulltext: 05. Emotional Attention - Uncovering the Mechanisms of Affective Biases in Perception.pdf (132.8KB)

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The emotional significance of sensory events may influence attention in a reflexive manner, but these effects vary across paradigms and participants. Recent research indicates that specific circuits in the brain may serve to amplify neural responses to emotional stimuli, a modulation similar to attentional effects usually driven by endogenous goals. However, this modulation involves distinct sources in emotional systems such as the amygdala, and may thus operate partly independent of top-down control by attentional systems in frontoparietal cortices. It remains to be clarified to what degree these emotional effects are influenced by specific perceptual and emotional dimensions, automaticity and attentional resources, task goals or expectations, and individual personality traits.

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