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The Effects of Emotional Valence on Visual Attentional Scope in Global/Local Processing Task

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2011, v.23 no.1, pp.139-151
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2011.23.1.005


& (2011). The Effects of Emotional Valence on Visual Attentional Scope in Global/Local Processing Task. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 23(1), 139-151, https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2011.23.1.005

Abstract

We investigated whether emotional valence has an effect on visual attentional scope in global/local processing task. We presented hierarchical stimuli with different number of elements and different inter-element distances at local scale. The global/local compatibility effect relied on the sparsity of local stimuli (Experiment 1). Low sparsity stimuli (high density) elicited global precedence, and high sparsity (low density) stimuli elicited local precedence. Global and local precedence of global/local compatibility effect also relied on a leading emotional valence (Experiment 2). The global precedence effect was found for positive and neutral target, and the local precedence effect was found for negative target. These results suggest that the visual attentional scope is influenced by emotional valence. In other words, positive emotion broadened the scope of attention, and negative emotion narrowed the scope of attention.

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전역/국지처리, 정서, 시각적 주의범위, global/local processing, emotional valence, visual attentional scope

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