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Faces are special, but facial expressions aren't: Insights from an oculomotor capture paradigm.
Devue, Christel; Grimshaw, Gina M.
2017In Attention, perception & psychophysics, 79 (5), p. 1438-1452
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Keywords :
Attention/physiology; Emotions/physiology; Eye Movements/physiology; Facial Expression; Oculomotor control; Attentional selection; Emotion; Eye tracking; Face processing; Facial expressions; Threat; Visual attention; Anger
Abstract :
[en] We compared the ability of angry and neutral faces to drive oculomotor behaviour as a test of the widespread claim that emotional information is automatically prioritized when competing for attention. Participants were required to make a saccade to a colour singleton; photos of angry or neutral faces appeared amongst other objects within the array, and were completely irrelevant for the task. Eye-tracking measures indicate that faces drive oculomotor behaviour in a bottom-up fashion; however, angry faces are no more likely to capture the eyes than neutral faces are. Saccade latencies suggest that capture occurrs via reflexive saccades and that the outcome of competition between salient items (colour singletons and faces) may be subject to fluctuations in attentional control. Indeed, although angry and neutral faces captured the eyes reflexively on a portion of trials, participants successfully maintained goal-relevant oculomotor behaviour on a majority of trials. We outline potential cognitive and brain mechanisms underlying oculomotor capture by faces.
Disciplines :
Neurosciences & behavior
Author, co-author :
Devue, Christel ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > Psychologie et neurosciences cognitives
Grimshaw, Gina M.
Language :
English
Title :
Faces are special, but facial expressions aren't: Insights from an oculomotor capture paradigm.
Publication date :
2017
Journal title :
Attention, perception & psychophysics
ISSN :
1943-3921
eISSN :
1943-393X
Volume :
79
Issue :
5
Pages :
1438-1452
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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