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@article{citeulike:559681, abstract = {Does emotion affect how people see? We investigated the effects of emotion and attention, as well as their conjoint effect, on contrast sensitivity, a dimension of early vision. We manipulated the emotional valence and the attentional distribution of cues preceding a target stimulus and asked observers to judge the orientation of the target as contrast varied. This study provides the first behavioral evidence that (a) emotion enhances contrast sensitivity irrespective of attention and (b) emotion potentiates the effect of attention on contrast sensitivity.}, author = {Phelps, Elizabeth A. and Ling, Sam and Carrasco, Marisa}, citeulike-article-id = {559681}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01701.x}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01701.x}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/psci/2006/00000017/00000004/art00006}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16623685}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16623685}, doi = {10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01701.x}, issn = {0956-7976}, journal = {Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS}, keywords = {affect, attention, contrast, emotion, perception, vision}, month = {April}, number = {4}, pages = {292--299}, posted-at = {2006-03-24 15:21:46}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Blackwell Publishing}, title = {Emotion facilitates perception and potentiates the perceptual benefits of attention.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01701.x}, volume = {17}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:559681 L3 - citeulike-article-id:559681 N2 - Does emotion affect how people see? We investigated the effects of emotion and attention, as well as their conjoint effect, on contrast sensitivity, a dimension of early vision. We manipulated the emotional valence and the attentional distribution of cues preceding a target stimulus and asked observers to judge the orientation of the target as contrast varied. This study provides the first behavioral evidence that (a) emotion enhances contrast sensitivity irrespective of attention and (b) emotion potentiates the effect of attention on contrast sensitivity. IS - 4 JF - Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS SN - 0956-7976 EP - 299 TI - Emotion facilitates perception and potentiates the perceptual benefits of attention. PB - Blackwell Publishing VL - 17 SP - 292 KW - affect KW - attention KW - contrast KW - emotion KW - perception KW - vision AU - Phelps, Elizabeth AU - Ling, Sam AU - Carrasco, Marisa PY - 2006/04// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01701.x ER -