The spider does not always win the fight for attention: Disengagement from threat is modulated by goal set
dc.contributor.author | Vromen, J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Lipp, Ottmar | |
dc.contributor.author | Remington, R. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-30T11:04:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-30T11:04:38Z | |
dc.date.created | 2015-10-29T04:09:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vromen, 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.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8098 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/02699931.2014.969198 | |
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.publisher | Routledge | |
dc.title | The spider does not always win the fight for attention: Disengagement from threat is modulated by goal set | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
dcterms.source.issn | 0269-9931 | |
dcterms.source.title | Cognition and Emotion | |
curtin.note |
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.department | School of Psychology and Speech Pathology | |
curtin.accessStatus | Open access |