情绪状态对自上而下的视觉选择性注意的影响

The Effect of Emotional State on Top- down Visual Selective Attention

通过双眼竞争范式考察了个体的情绪状态对其自上而下视觉选择性注意的影响。随机抽取了50名在校大学生,考察被试对重叠的面孔与房子的反应。结果发现:①在所有的情绪状态条件下个体对面孔的反应时显著长于对房子的反应时;②处于消极与积极情绪状态下个体分别偏向关注闷闷不乐的面孔与微笑的面孔;③性别对个体视觉选择性注意无显著影响。整个研究表明个体的情绪状态促进了对情绪面孔的视觉选择性注意。

In this paper, the author studies the impact of emotional state on top - down visual selective attention with binocular rivalry paradigm. Fifty college students were selected randomly to investigate the reaction time of overlapped pictures on face and house. The result shows that： （ 1 ） the average reaction time of faces is higher than that of houses un- der all emotional states, and the reaction times between them are different significantly; （2） persons with negative state or positive state pay closer attention to an unhappy face or a smiling face respectively; （3） gender doesnt have a signifi- cant impact on individual＇s visual selective attention. The whole study shows that individual emotional state has an effect on top- down visual selective attention.