When does hearing laughter draw attention to happy faces? Task relevance determines the influence of a crossmodal affective context on emotional attention

Prior evidence has shown that a person's affective context influences attention to emotional stimuli. The present study investigated whether a crossmodal affective context that is induced by remembering an emotional sound modulates attention to visual emotional stimuli. One group of participant...

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Main Authors:	Van Dessel, Pieter, Vogt, Julia
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2012
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3481060/

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spelling	pubmed-34810602012-10-30 When does hearing laughter draw attention to happy faces? Task relevance determines the influence of a crossmodal affective context on emotional attention Van Dessel, Pieter Vogt, Julia Neuroscience Prior evidence has shown that a person's affective context influences attention to emotional stimuli. The present study investigated whether a crossmodal affective context that is induced by remembering an emotional sound modulates attention to visual emotional stimuli. One group of participants had to remember a positive, negative, or neutral sound during each trial of a dot probe paradigm. A second group of participants also had to encode the valence of the sound. The results revealed that attention was preferentially deployed to stimuli that were emotionally congruent to the affective context. However, this effect was only evident when participants had to encode the valence of the affective context. These findings suggest that a crossmodal affective context modulates the deployment of attention to emotional stimuli provided that the affective connotation of the context is task-relevant. Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3481060/ /pubmed/23112769 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00294 Text en Copyright © 2012 Van Dessel and Vogt. http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited and subject to any copyright notices concerning any third-party graphics etc.
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title	When does hearing laughter draw attention to happy faces? Task relevance determines the influence of a crossmodal affective context on emotional attention
title_short	When does hearing laughter draw attention to happy faces? Task relevance determines the influence of a crossmodal affective context on emotional attention
title_full	When does hearing laughter draw attention to happy faces? Task relevance determines the influence of a crossmodal affective context on emotional attention
title_fullStr	When does hearing laughter draw attention to happy faces? Task relevance determines the influence of a crossmodal affective context on emotional attention
title_full_unstemmed	When does hearing laughter draw attention to happy faces? Task relevance determines the influence of a crossmodal affective context on emotional attention
title_sort	when does hearing laughter draw attention to happy faces? task relevance determines the influence of a crossmodal affective context on emotional attention
description	Prior evidence has shown that a person's affective context influences attention to emotional stimuli. The present study investigated whether a crossmodal affective context that is induced by remembering an emotional sound modulates attention to visual emotional stimuli. One group of participants had to remember a positive, negative, or neutral sound during each trial of a dot probe paradigm. A second group of participants also had to encode the valence of the sound. The results revealed that attention was preferentially deployed to stimuli that were emotionally congruent to the affective context. However, this effect was only evident when participants had to encode the valence of the affective context. These findings suggest that a crossmodal affective context modulates the deployment of attention to emotional stimuli provided that the affective connotation of the context is task-relevant.
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When does hearing laughter draw attention to happy faces? Task relevance determines the influence of a crossmodal affective context on emotional attention

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