Preferential access to emotion under attentional blink: evidence for threshold phenomenon

• Authors: Remigiusz Szczepanowski , Jakub Traczyk , Zhao Fan , Lewis O. Harvey
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present study provides evidence that the activation strength produced by emotional stimuli must pass a threshold level in order to be consciously perceived, contrary to the assumption of continuous quality of representation. An analysis of receiver operating characteristics (ROC) for attentional blink performance was used to distinguish between two (continuous vs. threshold) models of emotion perception by inspecting two different ROC’s shapes. Across all conditions, the results showed that performance in the attentional blink task was better described by the two-limbs ROC predicted by the Krantz threshold model than by the curvilinear ROC implied by the signal-detection theory.

Keywords

EN

awareness; threshold model; attentional blink; emotional representation; stream of rapidly changing distractors (RSVP)

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 127-132

Dates

published

2015-03-01

online

2015-04-18

Contributors

author

Remigiusz Szczepanowski

• Faculty in Wroclaw, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland
• University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty in Wroclaw, 30b Ostrowskiego Street, 53-238 Wroclaw, Poland

author

Jakub Traczyk

• Faculty in Wroclaw, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland

author

Zhao Fan

• Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior, (Central China Normal University), Ministry of Education, China

author

Lewis O. Harvey

• Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ppb-2015-0010