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Perceiving blocks of emotional pictures and sounds: effects on physiological variables

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2013
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Title
Perceiving blocks of emotional pictures and sounds: effects on physiological variables
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2013
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00295
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Anne-Marie Brouwer, Nelleke van Wouwe, Christian Mühl, Jan van Erp, Alexander Toet

Abstract

Most studies on physiological effects of emotion-inducing images and sounds examine stimulus locked variables reflecting a state of at most a few seconds. We here aimed to induce longer lasting emotional states using blocks of repetitive visual, auditory, and bimodal stimuli corresponding to specific valence and arousal levels. The duration of these blocks enabled us to reliably measure heart rate variability as a possible indicator of arousal. In addition, heart rate and skin conductance were determined without taking stimulus timing into account. Heart rate was higher for pleasant and low arousal stimuli compared to unpleasant and high arousal stimuli. Heart rate variability and skin conductance increased with arousal. Effects of valence and arousal on cardiovascular measures habituated or remained the same over 2-min intervals whereas the arousal effect on skin conductance increased. We did not find any effect of stimulus modality. Our results indicate that blocks of images and sounds of specific valence and arousal levels consistently influence different physiological parameters. These parameters need not be stimulus locked. We found no evidence for differences in emotion induction between visual and auditory stimuli, nor did we find bimodal stimuli to be more potent than unimodal stimuli. The latter could be (partly) due to the fact that our bimodal stimuli were not optimally congruent.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 3 2%
Portugal 1 <1%
Israel 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 153 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 28 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 15%
Student > Master 24 15%
Student > Bachelor 19 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 6%
Other 29 18%
Unknown 27 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 61 38%
Engineering 18 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 12 7%
Neuroscience 9 6%
Computer Science 8 5%
Other 24 15%
Unknown 29 18%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 March 2020.
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#6,160,872
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