Arousal and social anxiety but not the emotional category influence visual search performance when using task-irrelevant emotional faces.
The goal of the present study was to test the effects of emotional arousal elicited by emotional faces on visual search performance. In Experiment 1, facial expressions acted as distractors presented throughout the task. In Experiment 2, faces were presented only before the task. We found that the l...
| Publicado en: | Visual Cognition Vol. 32; no. 5; pp. 423 - 442 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May2024
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