Distraction by deviant sounds: disgusting and neutral words capture attention to the same extent
Title: | Distraction by deviant sounds: disgusting and neutral words capture attention to the same extent
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Author: | Parmentier, Fabrice B. R.
Fraga Carou, Isabel
Leiva, Alicia
Ferré, Pilar
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Affiliation: | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Psicoloxía Social, Básica e Metodoloxía
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Date of Issue: | 2020
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Publisher: | Springer
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Citation: | Parmentier, F.B.R., Fraga, I., Leiva, A. et al. Distraction by deviant sounds: disgusting and neutral words capture attention to the same extent. Psychological Research 84, 1801–1814 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01192-4
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Abstract: | Several studies have argued that words evoking negative emotions, such as disgust, grab attention more than neutral words, and leave traces in memory that are more persistent. However, these conclusions are typically based on tasks requiring participants to process the semantic content of these words in a voluntarily manner. We sought to compare the involuntary attention grabbing power of disgusting and neutral words using them as rare and unexpected auditory distractors in a cross-modal oddball task, and then probing the participants’ memory for these stimuli in a surprise recognition task. Frequentist and Bayesian analyses converged to show that, compared to a standard tone, disgusting and neutral auditory words produced significant but equivalent levels of distraction in a visual categorization task, that they elicited comparable levels of memory discriminability in the incidental recognition task, and that the participants’ individual sensitivity to disgust did not influence the results. Our results suggest that distraction by unexpected words is not modulated by their emotional valence, at least when these words are task-irrelevant and are temporally and perceptually decoupled from the target stimuli |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01192-4 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24219
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DOI: | 10.1007/s00426-019-01192-4 |
ISSN: | 0340-0727
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E-ISSN: | 1430-2772
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Rights: | © The Author(s) 2019. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made Atribución 4.0 Internacional
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