ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
Getting Attention Back on Task: Effects on Cognitive and Affective Processes
- Jennifer Yip
University of British Columbia - Julia Kam
University of California, Berkeley - Todd Handy
University of British Columbia
Abstract
Our neurocognitive responses to external events attenuate when our attention drifts off-task. How do these responses recover when we attentionally re-engage? We recorded event-related potentials while participants reported their attentional state and affective evaluations of visual images. Our findings suggest that affective processes normalize before cognitive processes do.
Cognitive Processes
