Searching for emotion: A top-down set governs attentional orienting to facial expressions

dc.contributor.authorDelchau, Hannah L.
dc.contributor.authorChristensen, Bruce K.
dc.contributor.authorLipp, Ottmar V.
dc.contributor.authorO'Kearney, Richard
dc.contributor.authorBandara, Kavindu H.
dc.contributor.authorTan, Nicole
dc.contributor.authorYabuki, Hana
dc.contributor.authorGoodhew, Stephanie Catherine
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-24T23:40:34Z
dc.date.issued2020-03
dc.description.abstractResearch 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.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn0001-6918en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/201857
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.provenancehttp://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.publisherElsevieren_AU
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT170100021en_AU
dc.rights© 2020 Elsevier B.Ven_AU
dc.rights.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 licenseen_AU
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en_AU
dc.sourceActa psychologicaen_AU
dc.subjectdot-probeen_AU
dc.subjectemotionen_AU
dc.subjectfacial expressionsen_AU
dc.subjectselective attentionen_AU
dc.subjectspatial attentionen_AU
dc.titleSearching for emotion: A top-down set governs attentional orienting to facial expressionsen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage103024en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationGoodhew, S. C., Research School of Psychology, The Australian National Universityen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailstephanie.goodhew@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidu4477319en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume204en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103024en_AU
local.identifier.essn1873-6297en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu4477319en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.elsevier.com/en-auen_AU
local.type.statusAccepted Versionen_AU

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