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Evidence for arousal-biased competition in perceptual learning

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dc.contributor.authorLee, Tae-Hoen
dc.contributor.authorItti, Laurenen
dc.contributor.authorMather, Maraen
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-19T18:32:05Zen
dc.date.available2018-11-19T18:32:05Zen
dc.date.issued2012-07-19en
dc.description.abstractArousal-biased competition theory predicts that arousal biases competition in favor of perceptually salient stimuli and against non-salient stimuli (Mather and Sutherland, 2011). The current study tested this hypothesis by having observers complete many trials in a visual search task in which the target either always was salient (a 55° tilted line among 80° distractors) or non-salient (a 55° tilted line among 50° distractors). Each participant completed one session in an emotional condition, in which visual search trials were preceded by negative arousing images, and one session in a non-emotional condition, in which the arousing images were replaced with neutral images (with session order counterbalanced). Test trials in which the target line had to be selected from among a set of lines with different tilts revealed that the emotional condition enhanced identification of the salient target line tilt but impaired identification of the non-salient target line tilt.Thus, arousal enhanced perceptual learning of salient stimuli but impaired perceptual learning of non-salient stimuli.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00241en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/85888en
dc.identifier.volume3en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherFrontiersen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectbottom-up salienceen
dc.subjectemotional arousalen
dc.subjectoptimal gain biasen
dc.subjectpop-out searchen
dc.subjectthreaten
dc.subjectvisual searchen
dc.titleEvidence for arousal-biased competition in perceptual learningen
dc.title.serialFrontiers in Psychologyen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypetexten

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