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Eye movement assessment of selective attentional capture by emotional pictures.
Abstract
The eye-tracking method was used to assess attentional orienting to and engagement on emotional visual scenes. In Experiment 1, unpleasant, neutral, or pleasant target pictures were presented simultaneously with neutral control pictures in peripheral vision under instruction to compare pleasantness of the pictures. The probability of first fixating an emotional picture, and the frequency of subsequent fixations, were greater than those for neutral pictures. In Experiment 2, participants were instructed to avoid looking at the emotional pictures, but these were still more likely to be fixated first and gazed longer during the first-pass viewing than neutral pictures. Low-level visual features cannot explain the results. It is concluded that overt visual attention is captured by both unpleasant and pleasant emotional content.
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“Whereas emotional stimuli can undermine endogenous control in the initial maintenance of gaze, such stimulus-driven effects appear to wane quickly in the later maintenance of gaze (Nummenmaa, et al., 2006).”
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“However, previous research suggests that orienting to an emotional image in this task context is largely unaffected by contrary instructions to look at an accompanying neutral image (Nummenmaa et al., 2006).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Nummenmaa, L., Hyönä, J., & Calvo, M. G.
- Affiliations
- University of Turku (FI)
- Universidad de La Laguna (ES)
- Venue
- Emotion
- Published
- 2006
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 257-268
- ISSN
- 1528-3542 (ISSN-L)
- 1931-1516
- OpenAlex
- W2080080403
- Cited by
- 454
- References
- 51
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 31 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 31 · 2018: 34 · 2017: 25 · 2016: 31 · 2015: 23 · 2014: 29 · 2013: 26 · 2012: 29
- FWCI
- 16.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Emotion (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (SEJ2004-00420)
- European Commission
- Suomen Akatemia
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
- Keywords
- attentional capture, emotional pictures, attentional orienting, eye movements, emotional valence, unpleasantness, visual attention, gaze duration, peripheral vision
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Affect, Arousal, Attention, Female, Fixation, Ocular, Humans, Male, Saccades, Visual Perception, Signal Detection, Psychological
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