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dc.contributor.authorVromen, J.
dc.contributor.authorLipp, Ottmar
dc.contributor.authorRemington, R.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T11:04:38Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T11:04:38Z
dc.date.created2015-10-29T04:09:02Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationVromen, J. and Lipp, O. and Remington, R. 2015. The spider does not always win the fight for attention: Disengagement from threat is modulated by goal set. Cognition and Emotion. 29 (7): pp. 1185-1196.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8098
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/02699931.2014.969198
dc.description.abstract

Stimulus-driven preferential attention to threat can be modulated by goal-driven attention. However, it remains unclear how this goal-driven modulation affects specific attentional components implied in threat interference. We hypothesise that goal-driven modulation most strongly impacts delayed disengagement from threat. A spatial cueing task was used that disentangles delayed disengagement from attentional capture by tightly manipulating the locus of attention at the time of target onset. Different top-down goals were induced by instructing participants to identify bird/fish targets (Experiment 1) or spider/cat targets (Experiment 2) among animal non-targets. Delayed disengagement from a non-target spider was observed only when the spider was part of the target set, not when it was task-irrelevant. This corroborates evidence that threat stimuli do not necessarily override goal-driven attentional control and that extended processing of threatening distractors is not obligatory.

dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.titleThe spider does not always win the fight for attention: Disengagement from threat is modulated by goal set
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.issn0269-9931
dcterms.source.titleCognition and Emotion
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This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Cognition and Emotion on 20/10/2014 available online at <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02699931.2014.969198">http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02699931.2014.969198</a>

curtin.departmentSchool of Psychology and Speech Pathology
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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