Title |
Explicit attention interferes with selective emotion processing in human extrastriate cortex
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Published in |
BMC Neuroscience, February 2007
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2202-8-16 |
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Authors |
Harald T Schupp, Jessica Stockburger, Florian Bublatzky, Markus Junghöfer, Almut I Weike, Alfons O Hamm |
Abstract |
Brain imaging and event-related potential studies provide strong evidence that emotional stimuli guide selective attention in visual processing. A reflection of the emotional attention capture is the increased Early Posterior Negativity (EPN) for pleasant and unpleasant compared to neutral images (approximately 150-300 ms poststimulus). The present study explored whether this early emotion discrimination reflects an automatic phenomenon or is subject to interference by competing processing demands. Thus, emotional processing was assessed while participants performed a concurrent feature-based attention task varying in processing demands. |
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