Reward history modulates perceptual load effects

Matias, Jérémy; Quinton, Jean‐Charles; Colomb, Michèle; Izaute, Marie; Silvert, Lætitia

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103217

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“…Finally, to our knowledge, distractors' reward history and their motivational values are still underinvestigated in driver distraction studies, with most of the works focusing on salience-based attentional capture [e.g., Chattington et al (2009), Dukic et al (2013), but see Walker and Trick (2019) for the impact of emotional irrelevant billboards]. Yet, whereas salience-based distraction can be prevented under some conditions (e.g., Lavie, 1995;Belopolsky and Theeuwes, 2010;Cosman and Vecera, 2010;Gaspelin et al, 2017;Gaspelin and Luck, 2018a,c), attentional capture caused by reward distractors seems to be "automatic" and thus likely to occur in any condition (e.g., Gupta et al, 2016;Munneke et al, 2016;Wang et al, 2018;Matias et al, 2021). Besides, reward-based distraction seems to be qualitatively different from salience-based distraction, as processing reward stimuli hampers a wider range of cognitive process (Anderson, 2017).…”

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Fear of Missing Out Predicts Distraction by Social Reward Signals Displayed on a Smartphone in Difficult Driving Situations

Matias

Quinton

Colomb³

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Front. Psychol.

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Smartphones are particularly likely to elicit driver distraction with obvious negative repercussions on road safety. Recent selective attention models lead to expect that smartphones might be very effective in capturing attention due to their social reward history. Hence, individual differences in terms of Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) – i.e., of the apprehension of missing out on socially rewarding experiences – should play an important role in driver distraction. This factor has already been associated with self-reported estimations of greater attention paid to smartphones while driving, but the potential link between FoMO and smartphone-induced distraction has never been tested empirically. Therefore, we conducted a preliminary study to investigate whether FoMO would modulate attentional capture by reward distractors displayed on a smartphone. First, participants performed a classical visual search task in which neutral stimuli (colored circles) were associated with high or low social reward outcomes. Then, they had to detect a pedestrian or a roe deer in driving scenes with various levels of fog density. The social reward stimuli were displayed as distractors on the screen of a smartphone embedded in the pictures. The results showed a significant three-way interaction between FoMO, social reward distraction, and task difficulty. More precisely, under attention-demanding conditions (i.e., high-fog density), individual FoMO scores predicted attentional capture by social reward distractors, with longer reaction times (RTs) for high rather than low social reward distractors. These results highlight the importance to consider reward history and FoMO when investigating smartphone-based distraction. Limitations are discussed, notably regarding our sample characteristics (i.e., mainly young females) that might hamper the generalization of our findings to the overall population. Future research directions are provided.

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Fear of Missing Out Predicts Distraction by Social Reward Signals Displayed on a Smartphone in Difficult Driving Situations

Matias

Quinton

Colomb³

et al. 2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…It is widely accepted that how much spare attentional resources remain for the processing of task-irrelevant items depends on the cognitive load of the primary task [ 26 , 42 , 43 ]. However, rewarded or emotional distractors can still succeed in attentional capture when fewer attentional resources are utilized [ 13 , 14 , 44 ]. Reward learning could act like ‘emotional tagging’ to facilitate the cognitive processing of stimuli through a bottom-up pattern [ 45 , 46 ].…”

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Reward History Modulates the Processing of Task-Irrelevant Emotional Faces in a Demanding Task

Chen

Wei

2023

Brain Sciences

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The aim of the current study was to examine how reward-associated emotional facial distractors could capture attentional resources in a demanding visual task using event-related potentials (ERPs). In the learning phase, a high- or low-reward probability was paired with angry, happy, or neutral faces. Then, in the test phase, participants performed a face-irrelevant task with no reward at stake, in which they needed to discriminate the length of two lines presented in the center of the screen while faces that were taken from the learning phase were used as distractors presented in the periphery. The behavioral results revealed no effect of distractor emotional valence since the emotional information was task-irrelevant. The ERP results in the test phase revealed a significant main effect of distractor emotional valence for the parieto-occipital P200 (170–230 ms); the mean amplitudes in both the angry- and happy-face conditions were more positive than the neutral-face condition. Moreover, we found that the high-reward association enhanced both the N170 (140–180 ms) and EPN (260–330 ms) relative to the low-reward association condition. Finally, the N2pc (270–320 ms) also exhibited enhanced neural activity in the high-reward condition compared to the low-reward condition. The absence of emotional effects indicated that task-irrelevant emotional facial stimuli did not impact behavioral or neural responses in this highly demanding task. However, reward-associated information was processed when attention was directed elsewhere, suggesting that the processing of reward-associated information worked more in an automatic way, irrespective of the top-down task demand.

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Reward history modulates perceptual load effects

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Fear of Missing Out Predicts Distraction by Social Reward Signals Displayed on a Smartphone in Difficult Driving Situations

Fear of Missing Out Predicts Distraction by Social Reward Signals Displayed on a Smartphone in Difficult Driving Situations

Reward History Modulates the Processing of Task-Irrelevant Emotional Faces in a Demanding Task

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