Preferential access to emotion under attentional blink: evidence for threshold phenomenon Journal Article uri icon

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abstract

  • Abstract; The present study provides evidence that the activation strength produced by emotional stimuli must pass a threshold level in order to be consciously perceived, contrary to the assumption of continuous quality of representation. An analysis of receiver operating characteristics (ROC) for attentional blink performance was used to distinguish between two (continuous vs. threshold) models of emotion perception by inspecting two different ROC’s shapes. Across all conditions, the results showed that performance in the attentional blink task was better described by the two-limbs ROC predicted by the Krantz threshold model than by the curvilinear ROC implied by the signal-detection theory.

publication date

  • March 1, 2015

has restriction

  • gold

Date in CU Experts

  • February 13, 2017 1:36 AM

Full Author List

  • Szczepanowski R; Traczyk J; Fan Z; Harvey LO

author count

  • 4

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Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1641-7844

Additional Document Info

start page

  • 127

end page

  • 132

volume

  • 46

issue

  • 1