May I have your attention, please: Electrocortical responses to positive and negative stimuli

Smith, N. Kyle; Cacioppo, John T.; Larsen, Jeff T.; Chartrand, Tanya L.

doi:10.1016/s0028-3932(02)00147-1

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“…In central vision, the first modulation due to the emotional content of the picture was observed earlier than 100 ms on parieto-occipital areas. This kind of effect was already described in this latency range but rarely on the peak of the P100 itself [15,52]. In far peripheral vision (+30°and -30°), the earliest emotional influence was observed in the contralateral occipital area, after 120 ms, i.e.…”

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Peripherally Presented Emotional Scenes: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Early ERP Responses

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Recent findings from event-related potentials (ERPs) studies provided strong evidence that centrally presented emotional pictures could be used to assess affective processing. Moreover, several studies showed that emotionally charged stimuli may automatically attract attention even if these are not consciously identified. Indeed, such perceptive conditions can be compared to those typical of the peripheral vision, particularly known to have low spatial resolution capacities. The aim of the present study was to characterize at behavioral and neural levels the impact of emotional visual scenes presented in peripheral vision. Eighteen participants were asked to categorize neutral and unpleasant pictures presented at central (0°) and peripheral eccentricities (-30 and +30°) while ERPs were recorded from 63 electrodes. ERPs were analysed by means of spatio-temporal principal component analyses (PCA) in order to evaluate influences of the emotional content on ERP components for each spatial position (central vs. peripheral). Main results highlight that affective modulation of early ERP components exists for both centrally and peripherally presented pictures. These findings suggest that, for far peripheral eccentricities as for central vision, the brain engages specific resources to process emotional information.

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“…Indeed, using experimental material presented in central vision, it has been demonstrated that emotional stimuli, especially unpleasant ones, are preferentially processed in comparison with neutral stimuli [14,15]. Moreover, emotional stimuli are better remembered [16][17][18], and can modulate early [19] and late [20] evoked components.…”

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“…For emotional stimuli used by psychologists (e.g., snakes; emotional faces) the processing capacities of the low route would appear to be inadequate (see Rolls, 1999;Smith, Cacioppo, Larsen, & Chartrand, 2003, for similar concerns). But, the low route is still cited to help explain particular affective phenomena (e.g., Bargh, 1997;Berkowitz & Harmon-Jones, 2004;Zajonc, 2000).…”

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On the interdependence of cognition and emotion

Storbeck

Clore

2007

Cognition & Emotion

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Affect and cognition have long been treated as independent entities, but in the current review we suggest that affect and cognition are in fact highly interdependent. We open the article by discussing three classic views for the independence of affect. These are (i) the affective independence hypothesis, that emotion is processed independently from cognition, (ii) the affective primacy hypothesis, that evaluative processing precedes semantic processing, and (iii) the affective automaticity hypothesis, that affectively potent stimuli commandeer attention and evaluation is automatic. We argue that affect is not independent from cognition, that affect is not primary to cognition, nor is affect automatically elicited. The second half of the paper discusses several instances of how affect influences cognition. We review experiments showing affective involvement in perception, semantic activation, and attitude activation. We conclude that one function of affect is to regulate cognitive processing.

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“…For instance, negative attributes exert greater influence on judgments and persuasion (Herr, Kardes, & Kim, 1991); negative traits have greater influence on forming an impression of another person (Peeters & Czapinski, 1990); and negative information has a greater impact on evaluative categorizations than does positive information (Cacioppo, Gardner, & Berntson, 1997;Ito, Larsen, Smith, & Cacioppo, 1998). These effects often rely on the fact that negative information has a strong attention-capturing quality: Negative stimuli are detected faster (Dijksterhuis & Aarts, 2003), draw more attention (Pratto & John, 1991;Smith, Cacioppo, Larsen, & Chartrand, 2003), and are more difficult to divert attention from (McKenna & Sharma, 1995;Pratto & John, 1991). Thus, the research literature leads to the strong prediction that negative outcomes (as compared with positive outcomes) will command more attention in moment-bymoment comprehension.…”

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How valence affects language processing: Negativity bias and mood congruence in narrative comprehension

Egidi

Gerrig

2009

Memory & Cognition

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The present research examined how positive and negative moods affect readers' understanding of positive and negative story endings. It demonstrated how negativity bias and mood congruence emerge during narrative comprehension. Participants were induced to experience either a positive or a negative mood and then read stories that could have either a positive or a negative ending. In Experiment 1, participants took longer to integrate negative endings than positive endings, independent of their mood. In Experiment 2, participants judged as more surprising those endings that did not match their mood. The present results illustrate that ending valence has strong influence on moment-by-moment reading, but that readers' moods influence expectations for story outcomes once readers reflect on a complete representation of the story.

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May I have your attention, please: Electrocortical responses to positive and negative stimuli

Cited by 497 publications

References 37 publications

Peripherally Presented Emotional Scenes: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Early ERP Responses

Peripherally Presented Emotional Scenes: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Early ERP Responses

On the interdependence of cognition and emotion

How valence affects language processing: Negativity bias and mood congruence in narrative comprehension

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