Negative and Positive Bias for Emotional Faces: Evidence from the Attention and Working Memory Paradigms
Visual attention and visual working memory (VWM) are two major cognitive functions in humans, and they have much in common. A growing body of research has investigated the effect of emotional information on visual attention and VWM. Interestingly, contradictory findings have supported both a negativ...
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| author | Qianru Xu Chaoxiong Ye Simeng Gu Zhonghua Hu Yi Lei Xueyan Li Lihui Huang Qiang Liu |
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| description | Visual attention and visual working memory (VWM) are two major cognitive functions in humans, and they have much in common. A growing body of research has investigated the effect of emotional information on visual attention and VWM. Interestingly, contradictory findings have supported both a negative bias and a positive bias toward emotional faces (e.g., angry faces or happy faces) in the attention and VWM fields. We found that the classical paradigms—that is, the visual search paradigm in attention and the change detection paradigm in VWM—are considerably similar. The settings of these paradigms could therefore be responsible for the contradictory results. In this paper, we compare previous controversial results from behavioral and neuroscience studies using these two paradigms. We suggest three possible contributing factors that have significant impacts on the contradictory conclusions regarding different emotional bias effects; these factors are stimulus choice, experimental setting, and cognitive process. We also propose new research directions and guidelines for future studies. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4f2bddd7fe174247816d12b73805c9682025-02-03T06:01:48ZengWileyNeural Plasticity2090-59041687-54432021-01-01202110.1155/2021/88510668851066Negative and Positive Bias for Emotional Faces: Evidence from the Attention and Working Memory ParadigmsQianru Xu0Chaoxiong Ye1Simeng Gu2Zhonghua Hu3Yi Lei4Xueyan Li5Lihui Huang6Qiang Liu7Institute of Brain and Psychological Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, ChinaInstitute of Brain and Psychological Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, ChinaInstitute of Brain and Psychological Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, ChinaInstitute of Brain and Psychological Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, ChinaInstitute of Brain and Psychological Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, ChinaSchool of Foreign Languages, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, ChinaFaculty of Education, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, ChinaInstitute of Brain and Psychological Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, ChinaVisual attention and visual working memory (VWM) are two major cognitive functions in humans, and they have much in common. A growing body of research has investigated the effect of emotional information on visual attention and VWM. Interestingly, contradictory findings have supported both a negative bias and a positive bias toward emotional faces (e.g., angry faces or happy faces) in the attention and VWM fields. We found that the classical paradigms—that is, the visual search paradigm in attention and the change detection paradigm in VWM—are considerably similar. The settings of these paradigms could therefore be responsible for the contradictory results. In this paper, we compare previous controversial results from behavioral and neuroscience studies using these two paradigms. We suggest three possible contributing factors that have significant impacts on the contradictory conclusions regarding different emotional bias effects; these factors are stimulus choice, experimental setting, and cognitive process. We also propose new research directions and guidelines for future studies.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/8851066 |
| spellingShingle | Qianru Xu Chaoxiong Ye Simeng Gu Zhonghua Hu Yi Lei Xueyan Li Lihui Huang Qiang Liu Negative and Positive Bias for Emotional Faces: Evidence from the Attention and Working Memory Paradigms Neural Plasticity |
| title | Negative and Positive Bias for Emotional Faces: Evidence from the Attention and Working Memory Paradigms |
| title_full | Negative and Positive Bias for Emotional Faces: Evidence from the Attention and Working Memory Paradigms |
| title_fullStr | Negative and Positive Bias for Emotional Faces: Evidence from the Attention and Working Memory Paradigms |
| title_full_unstemmed | Negative and Positive Bias for Emotional Faces: Evidence from the Attention and Working Memory Paradigms |
| title_short | Negative and Positive Bias for Emotional Faces: Evidence from the Attention and Working Memory Paradigms |
| title_sort | negative and positive bias for emotional faces evidence from the attention and working memory paradigms |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/8851066 |
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