Perceptual, not memorial, disruption underlies emotion-induced blindness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17764640 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Briana L Kennedy (0000-0002-3155-7800, University of Delaware, corresponding author), Steven B Most (0000-0001-9458-9597, University of Delaware) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 199-202 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Emotion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1528-3542 • E-ISSN: 1931-1516 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/a0026380 |
| PMID | 22148991 |
| OpenAlex | W2000416563 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 1 |
Emotion-induced blindness refers to impaired awareness of stimuli appearing in the temporal wake of an emotionally arousing stimulus (S. B. Most, Chun, Widders, & Zald, 2005). In previous emotion-induced blindness experiments, participants withheld target responses until the end of a rapid stream of stimuli, even though each target appeared in the middle of the stream. The resulting interval between the targets' offset and participants' initiation of a response leaves open the possibility that emotion-induced blindness reflects a failure to encode or maintain target information in memory rather than a failure of perception. In the present study, participants engaged in a typical emotion-induced blindness task but initiated a response immediately upon seeing each target. Emotion-induced blindness was nevertheless robust. This suggests that emotion-induced blindness is not attributable to the delay between awareness of a target and the initiation of a response, but rather reflects the disruptive impact of emotional distractors on mechanisms driving conscious perception
Audiology · Blindness · Cognitive psychology · Emotion Perception · Inattentional blindness · Perception · Medicine · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Neural dynamics and brain function · Neuroscience · Psychology · Visual perception and processing mechanisms
The temporal and perceptual characteristics of emotion-induced blindness
Statistical learning of across-trial regularities weakens emotion-induced blindness
Emotional stimuli similarly disrupt attention in both visual fields
The modulation of task relevance on emotion-induced blindness depends on whether targets and distractors belong to the same category
About time? The role of time perspective in the priority for positive over negative emotion in attention
Proactive deprioritization of emotional distractors enhances target perception
Anxious anticipation prolongs emotional interference for rapid visual detection
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |