APS

31st APS Annual Convention · 2019

The Effect of Emotion Words on Visual Awareness Using a Divided Visual Field Paradigm

Washington, DC · May 2019

Poster · Cognitive

  • Cameron MacDonald
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Jennifer Fugate
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Aminda O'Hare
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Abstract

Participants saw an emotion or control word prior to two emotional faces presented outside of awareness. Participants then indicated in which visual field a dot appeared. Participants’ reaction times to the dot differed when presented in the RVF following an emotion-congruent word with the face in that location.

Perception

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