Distraction by emotion in early adolescence: affective facilitation and interference during the attentional blink

This study examined the extent to which early adolescents (aged 10 to 13 years) differ from adults in their sensitivity to attention capture by affective stimuli during rapid processing. A rapid serial visual presentation paradigm (RSVP) was implemented as a dual task, requiring the report of two gr...

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Main Authors: Sabine eHeim, April A. Benasich, Andreas eKeil
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00580/full