Attentional capture by simultaneous pleasant and unpleasant emotional distractors.

Both high-arousal pleasant and unpleasant task-irrelevant stimuli capture attention and divert processing away from the main task leading to impaired behavioral performance in concurrent tasks. Most studies have separately investigated interference effects of unpleasant and pleasant stimuli on behav...

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Main Authors: Codispoti, M. (Author), Padmala, S. (Author), Pessoa, L. (Author), Sambuco, N. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Psychological Association Inc. 2018
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