The effect of emotional arousal on visual attentional performance: a systematic review.

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Psychological research

ISSN: 1430-2772

Titre abrégé: Psychol Res

Pays: Germany

ID NLM: 0435062

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Date de publication:
07 Jul 2023

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received: 07 03 2023

accepted: 25 06 2023

medline: 7 7 2023

pubmed: 7 7 2023

entrez: 7 7 2023

Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Although the arousal elicited by emotional stimuli, similarly to valence, is an integrative part of emotion theories, previous studies and reviews mostly focused on the valence of a stimulus and rarely investigated the role of arousal. Here, I systematically searched for articles that used visual attentional paradigms, manipulated emotional arousal by auditory or visual, task-relevant or task-irrelevant stimuli, measured behavioral responses, ocular behavior, or neural correlates. I found that task-relevant arousing stimuli draw and hold attention regardless of the modality. In contrast, task-irrelevant arousing stimuli impaired task performance. However, when the emotional content precedes the task or it is presented for a longer duration, arousal increased performance. Future directions on how research could address the remaining questions are discussed.

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DOI: 10.1007/s00426-023-01852-6 PMID: 37417982

pubmed: 37417982

doi: 10.1007/s00426-023-01852-6

pii: 10.1007/s00426-023-01852-6

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Organisme : Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovaciós Alap

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