APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Visual Emotional Cues Increase Change Deafness

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Cognitive

  • Genevieve Piatt
    Elizabethtown College

Abstract

Fifty-four undergraduate students completed an auditory change detection task while being exposed to angry, fearful, and neutral expressions. Results showed significantly fewer hits on the auditory task when participants were exposed to angry expressions, suggesting an attentional bias to visual threats.

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