Emotional modulation of the attentional blink and the relation to interpersonal reactivity

Kanske, Philipp; Schönfelder, Sandra; Wessa, Michèle

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00641

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“…Using a very similar methodology, but presenting neutral subliminal adjectives, none of the subjects were excluded in a previous study (Jiménez-Ortega et al, 2014 ). A major explanatory factor could therefore be the emotional nature of the subliminal adjectives in the present study, in consonance with recent studies in which enhanced detection is reported for emotional stimuli in attentional blink paradigms (Kanske et al, 2013 ). Our data support this possibility, although in our case the effect seems mainly supported by positive adjectives, since the analyses revealed that these adjectives were significantly easier to detect (see “Results” Section for details).…”

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Subliminal Emotional Words Impact Syntactic Processing: Evidence from Performance and Event-Related Brain Potentials

Jiménez-Ortega

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Tejada

et al. 2017

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Recent studies demonstrate that syntactic processing can be affected by emotional information and that subliminal emotional information can also affect cognitive processes. In this study, we explore whether unconscious emotional information may also impact syntactic processing. In an Event-Related brain Potential (ERP) study, positive, neutral and negative subliminal adjectives were inserted within neutral sentences, just before the presentation of the supraliminal adjective. They could either be correct (50%) or contain a morphosyntactic violation (number or gender disagreements). Larger error rates were observed for incorrect sentences than for correct ones, in contrast to most studies using supraliminal information. Strikingly, emotional adjectives affected the conscious syntactic processing of sentences containing morphosyntactic anomalies. The neutral condition elicited left anterior negativity (LAN) followed by a P600 component. However, a lack of anterior negativity and an early P600 onset for the negative condition were found, probably as a result of the negative subliminal correct adjective capturing early syntactic resources. Positive masked adjectives in turn prompted an N400 component in response to morphosyntactic violations, probably reflecting the induction of a heuristic processing mode involving access to lexico-semantic information to solve agreement anomalies. Our results add to recent evidence on the impact of emotional information on syntactic processing, while showing that this can occur even when the reader is unaware of the emotional stimuli.

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Subliminal Emotional Words Impact Syntactic Processing: Evidence from Performance and Event-Related Brain Potentials

Jiménez-Ortega

Espuny

Tejada

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Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…It is interesting that the findings of this study are less consistent with results obtained by Kanske, Schönfelder, and Wessa (2013). They conducted an experiment measuring both behavior and ERP using an AB paradigm similar to our study.…”

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Cannot avert the eyes: reduced attentional blink toward others’ emotional expressions in empathic people

Kang¹,

Ham

Wallraven

2016

Psychon Bull Rev

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Empathy is one of the core components of social interaction. Although current models of empathy emphasize the role of attention, few studies have directly examined the relationship between attentional processes and individual differences in empathy. This study hypothesized that empathic people would process emotional expressions more efficiently and automatically compared to less empathic people. Crucially, such a processing advantage should be present only for faces of others compared to one's own face. To test this hypothesis, 100 healthy participants varying in their self-reported empathy levels underwent an attentional blink task that tested preferential attentional processing. Results showed a diminished attentional blink effect for sad faces of others in the high-empathy group. Additionally, performance differences in the task were related to both trait empathy and daily prosocial behavior. Overall, our results show that emotional stimuli preferentially capture the attention of empathic people, leading to automatic processing.

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“…4, Table 3). This analysis indeed yielded distinct 606 networks that resembled the task-based networks (Table S11) Perry et al, 2010) and that 807 inter-individual differences in perspective taking correlate with early 808 emotion detection (Kanske et al, 2013b). Because the EmpaToM as- …”

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Dissecting the social brain: Introducing the EmpaToM to reveal distinct neural networks and brain–behavior relations for empathy and Theory of Mind

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Emotional modulation of the attentional blink and the relation to interpersonal reactivity

Cited by 25 publications

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Subliminal Emotional Words Impact Syntactic Processing: Evidence from Performance and Event-Related Brain Potentials

Subliminal Emotional Words Impact Syntactic Processing: Evidence from Performance and Event-Related Brain Potentials

Cannot avert the eyes: reduced attentional blink toward others’ emotional expressions in empathic people

Dissecting the social brain: Introducing the EmpaToM to reveal distinct neural networks and brain–behavior relations for empathy and Theory of Mind

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