Emotion Facilitates Perception and Potentiates the Perceptual Benefits of Attention

• Elizabeth A. Phelps

  Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science, New York University

• Sam Ling

  Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science, New York University

• Marisa Carrasco

  Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science, New York University

抄録

Does emotion affect how people see? We investigated the effects of emotion and attention, as well as their conjoint effect, on contrast sensitivity, a dimension of early vision. We manipulated the emotional valence and the attentional distribution of cues preceding a target stimulus and asked observers to judge the orientation of the target as contrast varied. This study provides the first behavioral evidence that (a) emotion enhances contrast sensitivity irrespective of attention and (b) emotion potentiates the effect of attention on contrast sensitivity.

収録刊行物

• Psychological Science

  Psychological Science 17 (4), 292-299, 2006-04

  SAGE Publications

キーワード

• General Psychology

詳細情報

• CRID: 1360574094591134592
• NII論文ID: 30020174089
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01701.x
• ISSN: 14679280
• ISSN: 09567976
• Web Site: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01701.x
• Web Site: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01701.x
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