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More than meets the heart: Systolic amplification of different emotional faces is task dependent
- Source :
- Cogn Emot
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Interoceptive processes emanating from baroreceptor signals support emotional functioning. Previous research suggests a unique link to fear: fearful faces, presented in synchrony with systolic baroreceptor firing draw more attention and are rated as more intense than those presented at diastole. This study examines whether this effect is unique to fearful faces or can be observed in other emotional faces. Participants (n=71) completed an emotional visual search task (VST) in which fearful, happy, disgust and sad faces were presented during systolic and diastolic phases of the cardiac cycle. Visual search accuracy and emotion detection accuracy and latency were recorded, followed by a subjective intensity task. A series of interactions between emotion and cardiac phase were observed. Visual search accuracy for happy and disgust faces was greater at systole than diastole; the opposite was found for fearful faces. Fearful and happy faces were perceived as more intense at systole. Previous research proposed that cardiac signaling has specific effects on the attention and intensity ratings for fearful faces. Results from the present tasks suggest these effects are more generalized and raise the possibility that interoceptive signals amplify emotional superiority effects dependent on the task employed.
- Subjects :
- Baroreceptor
Systole
05 social sciences
Emotions
Happiness
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Emotional functioning
Fear
050105 experimental psychology
Article
Task (project management)
Facial Expression
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Interoception
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Psychology
Face detection
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cogn Emot
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....483b2a2e1884368f4c6f4e150e27adad