Effects on automatic attention due to exposure to pictures of emotional faces while performing Chinese word judgment tasks.

Two experiments were conducted to investigate the automatic processing of emotional facial expressions while performing low or high demand cognitive tasks under unattended conditions. In Experiment 1, 35 subjects performed low (judging the structure of Chinese words) and high (judging the tone of Ch...

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Main Authors: Huang Junhong, Zhou Renlai, Hu Senqi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3790788?pdf=render