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doi:10.22028/D291-41330
Title: | Social processing modulates the initial allocation of attention towards angry faces: evidence from the N2pc component |
Author(s): | Wirth, Benedikt Emanuel Wentura, Dirk |
Language: | English |
Title: | Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 1 |
Publisher/Platform: | Oxford University Press |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Free key words: | angry faces attentional bias dot-probe task N2pc component social processing |
DDC notations: | 150 Psychology |
Publikation type: | Journal Article |
Abstract: | Previous research has shown that attentional bias towards angry faces is moderated by the activation of a social processing mode. More specifcally, reliable cueing effects for angry face cues in the dot-probe task only occurred when participants performed a task that required social processing of the target stimuli. However, cueing effects are a rather distal measure of covert shifts in spatial attention. Thus, it remains unclear whether the social processing mode modulates initial allocation of attention to or attentional disengagement from angry faces. In the present study, we used the N2pc, an event-related potential component, as an index of attentional shifts towards angry faces. Participants performed a dot-probe task with two different target conditions while the electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded. In the social target condition, target stimuli were socially meaningful (schematic faces), and in the non-social target condition, they were meaningless (scrambled schematic faces). The amplitude of the N2pc component elicited by angry face cues was signifcantly larger in the social target condition than in the non-social target condition. This pattern also occurred for behavioural cueing effects. These results suggest that the activation of a social processing mode due to current task demands affects the initial allocation of attention towards angry faces. |
DOI of the first publication: | 10.1093/scan/nsad070 |
URL of the first publication: | https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsad070 |
Link to this record: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-413302 hdl:20.500.11880/37067 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-41330 |
ISSN: | 1749-5024 1749-5016 |
Date of registration: | 18-Dec-2023 |
Description of the related object: | Supplementary data |
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Faculty: | HW - Fakultät für Empirische Humanwissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaft |
Department: | HW - Psychologie |
Professorship: | HW - Prof. Dr. Dirk Wentura |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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