Exogenous Attention to Emotional Stimuli Presenting Realistic (3D) Looming Motion

Overview

Journal Brain Topogr

Specialty Neurology

Date 2022 Aug 6

PMID 35933532

Authors

Uxia Fernandez-Folgueiras

Maria Hernandez-Lorca

Constantino Mendez-Bertolo

Fatima Alvarez

Tamara Gimenez-Fernandez

Luis Carretie

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Abstract

Previous research shows that dynamic stimuli, on the one hand, and emotional stimuli, on the other, capture exogenous attention due to their biological relevance. Through neural (ERPs) and behavioral measures (reaction times and errors), the present study explored the combined effect of looming motion and emotional content on attentional capture. To this end, 3D-recreated static and dynamic animals assessed as emotional (positive or negative) or neutral were presented as distractors while 71 volunteers performed a line orientation task. We observed a two-phase effect: firstly (before 300 ms), early components of ERPs (P1p and N2po) showed enhanced exogenous attentional capture by looming positive distractors and static threatening animals. Thereafter, dynamic and static threatening distractors received enhanced endogenous attention as revealed by both late ERP activity (LPC) and behavioral (errors) responses. These effects are likely explained by both the emotional valence and the distance of the stimulus at each moment.

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