TY - JOUR
T1 - Monitoring eye movements while searching for affective faces
AU - Reynolds, Michael G.
AU - Eastwood, John D.
AU - Partanen, Marita
AU - Frischen, Alexandra
AU - Smilek, Daniel
N1 - Funding Information:
Please address all correspondence to: Michael G. Reynolds, Department of Psychology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, ON, Canada K9J 7B8. E-mail: [email protected] This research was supported by grants to DS and JDE from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), a Canadian Foundation for Innovation grant to JDE, and a postdoctoral fellowship from NSERC award to MGR. We thank Donna Kwan for her assistance in data collection.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - A single experiment is reported in which we provide a novel analysis of eye movements during visual search to disentangle the contributions of unattended guidance and focal target processing to visual search performance. This technique is used to examine the controversial claim that unattended affective faces can guide attention during search. Results indicated that facial expression influences how efficiently the target was fixated for the first time as a function of set size. However, affective faces did not influence how efficiently the target was identified as a function of set size after it was first fixated. These findings suggest that, in the present context, facial expression can influence search before the target is attended and that the present measures are able to distinguish between the guidance of attention by targets and the processing of targets within the focus of attention.
AB - A single experiment is reported in which we provide a novel analysis of eye movements during visual search to disentangle the contributions of unattended guidance and focal target processing to visual search performance. This technique is used to examine the controversial claim that unattended affective faces can guide attention during search. Results indicated that facial expression influences how efficiently the target was fixated for the first time as a function of set size. However, affective faces did not influence how efficiently the target was identified as a function of set size after it was first fixated. These findings suggest that, in the present context, facial expression can influence search before the target is attended and that the present measures are able to distinguish between the guidance of attention by targets and the processing of targets within the focus of attention.
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U2 - 10.1080/13506280701623704
DO - 10.1080/13506280701623704
M3 - Article
SN - 1350-6285
VL - 17
SP - 318
EP - 333
JO - Visual Cognition
JF - Visual Cognition
IS - 3
ER -