Gaze Patterns When Looking at Emotional Pictures: Motivationally Biased Attention Export

@article{citeulike:6031853, abstract = {Pictures of either emotionally neutral, pleasant (affectionate), or unpleasant (threat and injury) scenes were paired with nonemotional control pictures and presented for 3 s, while eye fixations were monitored. Preferential attention to the emotional picture of eah pair occurred at an early processing stage: The probability of placement of the first fixation and the proportion of viewing time during the first 500 ms were higher for both pleasant and unpleasant pictures than for neutral pictures, whereas later fixation location and time were not differentially affected. This suggests that, when emotional and nonemotional stimuli are presented simultaneously, emotional meaning captures initial overt orienting and engages attention early, as measured by gaze direction and duration. The possibility that this effect could be accounted for by perceptual differences—such as luminance and complexity—between emotional and neutral pictures was ruled out.}, author = {Calvo, Manuel G. and Lang, Peter J.}, citeulike-article-id = {6031853}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:MOEM.0000040153.26156.ed}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/m85474n305h46057}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1023/B:MOEM.0000040153.26156.ed}, journal = {Motivation and Emotion}, keywords = {emotion, eye, iaps, movements}, month = {September}, number = {3}, pages = {221--243}, posted-at = {2009-10-29 11:30:21}, priority = {3}, title = {Gaze Patterns When Looking at Emotional Pictures: Motivationally Biased Attention}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:MOEM.0000040153.26156.ed}, volume = {28}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6031853 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6031853 N2 - Pictures of either emotionally neutral, pleasant (affectionate), or unpleasant (threat and injury) scenes were paired with nonemotional control pictures and presented for 3 s, while eye fixations were monitored. Preferential attention to the emotional picture of eah pair occurred at an early processing stage: The probability of placement of the first fixation and the proportion of viewing time during the first 500 ms were higher for both pleasant and unpleasant pictures than for neutral pictures, whereas later fixation location and time were not differentially affected. This suggests that, when emotional and nonemotional stimuli are presented simultaneously, emotional meaning captures initial overt orienting and engages attention early, as measured by gaze direction and duration. The possibility that this effect could be accounted for by perceptual differences—such as luminance and complexity—between emotional and neutral pictures was ruled out. IS - 3 JF - Motivation and Emotion EP - 243 TI - Gaze Patterns When Looking at Emotional Pictures: Motivationally Biased Attention VL - 28 SP - 221 KW - emotion KW - eye KW - iaps KW - movements AU - Calvo, Manuel AU - Lang, Peter PY - 2004/09/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:MOEM.0000040153.26156.ed ER -