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The persistence of attention to emotion: Brain potentials during and after picture presentation.

Hajcak, Greg, Olvet, Doreen M.·2008·Emotion

Abstract

Emotional stimuli have been shown to elicit increased perceptual processing and attentional allocation. The late positive potential (LPP) is a sustained P300-like component of the event-related potential that is enhanced after the presentation of pleasant and unpleasant pictures as compared with neutral pictures. In this study, the LPP was measured using dense array electroencephalograph both before and after pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant images to examine the time course of attentional allocation toward emotional stimuli. Results from 17 participants confirmed that the LPP was larger after emotional than neutral images and that this effect persisted for 800 ms after pleasant picture offset and at least 1,000 ms after unpleasant picture offset. The persistence of increased attention after unpleasant compared to pleasant stimuli is consistent with the existence of a negativity bias. Overall, these results indicate that attentional capture of emotion continues well beyond picture presentation and that this can be measured with the LPP. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.

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Authors
Hajcak, G., & Olvet, D. M.
Affiliations
Stony Brook University (US)
Venue
Emotion
Published
2008
Volume
8
Issue
2
Pages
250-255
ISSN
  • 1528-3542 (ISSN-L)
  • 1931-1516
OpenAlex
W2158774259
Cited by
443
References
44
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FWCI
7.75
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Emotion (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
Keywords
late positive potential, emotional attention, negativity bias, attentional capture, emotional pictures, unpleasant stimuli, P300, event-related potentials
MeSH terms
Adult, Attention, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Dominance, Cerebral, Electroencephalography, Emotions, Evoked Potentials, Visual, Female, Humans, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Reaction Time, Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted, Event-Related Potentials, P300

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