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Effects of Directed Attention on Subsequent Processing of Emotions: Increased Attention to Unpleasant Pictures Occurs in the Late Positive Potential

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Title
Effects of Directed Attention on Subsequent Processing of Emotions: Increased Attention to Unpleasant Pictures Occurs in the Late Positive Potential
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Frontiers in Psychology, July 2018
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01127
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Yuming Chen, Dandan Zhang, Donghong Jiang

Abstract

Directed attention is a fundamental mental resource for voluntarily managing the focus and direction of cognitive resources. The present study investigated how processing of unpleasant and neutral images is affected by emotion and previous directed attention. The results showed that there was enhanced early posterior negativity, anterior N2, and parietal late positive potential (LPP) in response to unpleasant pictures compared to neutral pictures. Furthermore, attention history (i.e., whether stimuli were previously attended to) modulated the amplitudes of the anterior N2 and parietal LPP. Most notably, an interaction between attention history and emotion was found in the LPP: pictures with an 'attended history' evoked larger LPP amplitudes than pictures with an 'unattended history,' but this effect was only significant for unpleasant pictures (not for neutral pictures). These results suggest that directed attention to affective pictures facilitates subsequent neural processing of these pictures, and that this effect was amplified by unpleasant emotions experienced in the LPP. The current findings provide further empirical evidence of a two-stage model of emotion-attention interaction.

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Unknown 33 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 21%
Researcher 5 15%
Student > Bachelor 3 9%
Student > Master 3 9%
Student > Postgraduate 2 6%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 12 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 11 33%
Neuroscience 3 9%
Linguistics 1 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 14 42%
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