Searching for emotion: A top-down set governs attentional orienting to facial expressions
dc.contributor.author | Delchau, Hannah L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Christensen, Bruce K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Lipp, Ottmar V. | |
dc.contributor.author | O'Kearney, Richard | |
dc.contributor.author | Bandara, Kavindu H. | |
dc.contributor.author | Tan, Nicole | |
dc.contributor.author | Yabuki, Hana | |
dc.contributor.author | Goodhew, Stephanie Catherine | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-24T23:40:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-03 | |
dc.description.abstract | Research indicates that humans orient attention toward facial expressions of emotion. Orienting to facial expressions has typically been conceptualised as due to bottom-up attentional capture. However, this overlooks the contributions of top-down attention and selection history. In the present study, across four experiments, these three attentional processes were differentiated using a variation of the dot-probe task, in which participants were cued to attend to a happy or angry face on each trial. Results show that attention toward facial expressions was not exclusively driven by bottom-up attentional capture; instead, participants could shift their attention toward both happy and angry faces in a top-down manner. This effect was not found when the faces were inverted, indicating that top-down attention relies on holistic processing of the face. In addition, no evidence of selection history was found (i.e., no improvement on repeated trials or blocks of trials in which the task was to orient to the same expression). Altogether, these results suggest that humans can use top-down attentional control to rapidly orient attention to emotional faces. | en_AU |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en_AU |
dc.identifier.issn | 0001-6918 | en_AU |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/201857 | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | en_AU |
dc.provenance | http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0001-6918/..."Author's post-print on open access repository after an embargo period of 24 months" from SHERPA/RoMEO site (as at 25/02/2020). | en_AU |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_AU |
dc.relation | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT170100021 | en_AU |
dc.rights | © 2020 Elsevier B.V | en_AU |
dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license | en_AU |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_AU |
dc.source | Acta psychologica | en_AU |
dc.subject | dot-probe | en_AU |
dc.subject | emotion | en_AU |
dc.subject | facial expressions | en_AU |
dc.subject | selective attention | en_AU |
dc.subject | spatial attention | en_AU |
dc.title | Searching for emotion: A top-down set governs attentional orienting to facial expressions | en_AU |
dc.type | Journal article | en_AU |
dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 103024 | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Goodhew, S. C., Research School of Psychology, The Australian National University | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoremail | stephanie.goodhew@anu.edu.au | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | u4477319 | en_AU |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 204 | en_AU |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103024 | en_AU |
local.identifier.essn | 1873-6297 | en_AU |
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | u4477319 | en_AU |
local.publisher.url | https://www.elsevier.com/en-au | en_AU |
local.type.status | Accepted Version | en_AU |