The naked truth: Positive, arousing distractors impair rapid target perception

By Steven B. Most, Stephen D. Smith, Amy B. Cooter, B. Levy, David H. Zald. 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Sensory Systems

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How do emotion and motivation direct executive control? (2009, unknown): “In particular, exposure to erotica enhances visual responses [62] and can interfere with ongoing tasks [63, 64 ].”
The effects of emotion on attention: A review of attentional processing of emotional information (2010, background): “The same group has reported similar effects with arousing positive stimuli (Most et al., 2007) and stimuli made negative through aversive conditioning (Smith, Most, Newsome, & Zald, 2006).”
The perception and categorisation of emotional stimuli: A review (2010, background): “For example, studies investigating the attentional blink have found rapid attentional prioritisation of both emotional words (Anderson, 2005) and emotional pictures (Most et al., 2007), but no study has compared the perceptual effects of the two types of stimuli.”
The MAD Model of Moral Contagion: The Role of Motivation, Attention, and Design in the Spread of Moralized Content Online (2019, unknown): “Emotional stimuli can also draw attention away from ongoing visual goals (Arnell, Killman, & Fijavz, 2007; Ciesielski, Armstrong, Zald, & Olatunji, 2010; Most, Smith, Cooter, Levy, & Zald, 2007; Most & Wang, 2011).”
Blinded by Emotion: Target Misses Follow Attention Capture by Arousing Distractors in RSVP (2007, background): “Most, Smith, Cooter, Levy, and Zald (in press) recently demonstrated that erotic pictures were also capable of producing an involuntary AB when presented as critical distractors and that this effect was even more robust than that observed with the negative pictures.”
Value-driven attentional capture (2011, background): “Motivationally salient stimuli, such as happy faces and erotic pictures, are also known to capture attention (31, 32), but it is unclear whether such attentional preferences reflect arbitrary associations between stimuli and reward outcomes that develop through basic learning processes, or an evolut”