Emotional conditioning to masked stimuli and modulation of visuospatial attention
Emotional conditioning to masked stimuli and modulation of visuospatial attention
Two studies investigated the effects of conditioning to masked stimuli on visuospatial attention. During the conditioning phase, masked snakes and spiders were paired with a burst of white noise, or paired with an innocuous tone, in the conditioned stimulus (CS)+ and CS? conditions, respectively. Attentional allocation to the CSs was then assessed with a visual probe task, in which the CSs were presented unmasked (Experiment 1) or both unmasked and masked (Experiment 2), together with fear-irrelevant control stimuli (flowers and mushrooms). In Experiment 1, participants preferentially allocated attention to CS+ relative to control stimuli. Experiment 2 suggested that this attentional bias depended on the perceived aversiveness of the unconditioned stimulus and did not require conscious recognition of the CSs during both acquisition and expression.
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Beaver, John D.
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Bradley, Brendan P.
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Mogg, Karin
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March 2005
Beaver, John D.
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Bradley, Brendan P.
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Mogg, Karin
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Beaver, John D., Bradley, Brendan P. and Mogg, Karin
(2005)
Emotional conditioning to masked stimuli and modulation of visuospatial attention.
Emotion, 5 (1), .
(doi:10.1037/1528-3542.5.1.67).
Abstract
Two studies investigated the effects of conditioning to masked stimuli on visuospatial attention. During the conditioning phase, masked snakes and spiders were paired with a burst of white noise, or paired with an innocuous tone, in the conditioned stimulus (CS)+ and CS? conditions, respectively. Attentional allocation to the CSs was then assessed with a visual probe task, in which the CSs were presented unmasked (Experiment 1) or both unmasked and masked (Experiment 2), together with fear-irrelevant control stimuli (flowers and mushrooms). In Experiment 1, participants preferentially allocated attention to CS+ relative to control stimuli. Experiment 2 suggested that this attentional bias depended on the perceived aversiveness of the unconditioned stimulus and did not require conscious recognition of the CSs during both acquisition and expression.
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Published date: March 2005
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