Evidence for arousal-biased competition in perceptual learning

Evidence for arousal-biased competition in perceptual learning

Arousal-biased competition theory predicts that arousal biases competition in favor of perceptually salient stimuli and against non-salient stimuli (Mather & Sutherland, 2011). The current study tested this hypothesis by having observers complete many trials in a visual search task in which...

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Main Authors: Tae-Ho eLee, Laurent eItti, Mara eMather
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
threat
visual search
bottom-up salience
emotional arousal
optimal gain bias
pop-out search
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00241/full

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