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Distraction by deviant sounds: disgusting and neutral words capture attention to the same extent

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    Identifier: imarina:5873654
    Authors:
    Parmentier FBR, Fraga I, Leiva A, Ferré P
    Abstract:
    Several studies have argued that words evoking negative emotions, such as disgust, grab attention more than neutral words, and leave traces in memory that are more persistent. However, these conclusions are typically based on tasks requiring participants to process the semantic content of these words in a voluntarily manner. We sought to compare the involuntary attention grabbing power of disgusting and neutral words using them as rare and unexpected auditory distractors in a cross-modal oddball task, and then probing the participants' memory for these stimuli in a surprise recognition task. Frequentist and Bayesian analyses converged to show that, compared to a standard tone, disgusting and neutral auditory words produced significant but equivalent levels of distraction in a visual categorization task, that they elicited comparable levels of memory discriminability in the incidental recognition task, and that the participants' individual sensitivity to disgust did not influence the results. Our results suggest that distraction by unexpected words is not modulated by their emotional valence, at least when these words are task-irrelevant and are temporally and perceptually decoupled from the target stimuli.
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    Author, as appears in the article.: Parmentier FBR, Fraga I, Leiva A, Ferré P
    Department: Psicologia
    e-ISSN: 14302772
    URV's Author/s: Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar
    Keywords: Semantic information Mismatch negativity Involuntary attention Increases distraction Emotional words Distributed neuronal networks Brain potentials Basic emotions Auditory distraction Acoustic novelty
    Abstract: Several studies have argued that words evoking negative emotions, such as disgust, grab attention more than neutral words, and leave traces in memory that are more persistent. However, these conclusions are typically based on tasks requiring participants to process the semantic content of these words in a voluntarily manner. We sought to compare the involuntary attention grabbing power of disgusting and neutral words using them as rare and unexpected auditory distractors in a cross-modal oddball task, and then probing the participants' memory for these stimuli in a surprise recognition task. Frequentist and Bayesian analyses converged to show that, compared to a standard tone, disgusting and neutral auditory words produced significant but equivalent levels of distraction in a visual categorization task, that they elicited comparable levels of memory discriminability in the incidental recognition task, and that the participants' individual sensitivity to disgust did not influence the results. Our results suggest that distraction by unexpected words is not modulated by their emotional valence, at least when these words are task-irrelevant and are temporally and perceptually decoupled from the target stimuli.
    Thematic Areas: Psychology, experimental Psychology Psicología Oncology Medicine (miscellaneous) Hematology General medicine Experimental and cognitive psychology Enfermagem Educação física Developmental and educational psychology Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Ciências biológicas ii Arts and humanities (miscellaneous)
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    ISSN: 03400727
    Author's mail: mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat
    Author identifier: 0000-0002-3192-0040
    Record's date: 2023-02-18
    Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Link to the original source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00426-019-01192-4
    Papper original source: Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung. 84 (7): 1801-1814
    APA: Parmentier FBR, Fraga I, Leiva A, Ferré P (2020). Distraction by deviant sounds: disgusting and neutral words capture attention to the same extent. Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung, 84(7), 1801-1814. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-019-01192-4
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Article's DOI: 10.1007/s00426-019-01192-4
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Journal publication year: 2020
    Publication Type: Journal Publications
  • Keywords:

    Arts and Humanities (Miscellaneous),Developmental and Educational Psychology,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology,Hematology,Medicine (Miscellaneous),Oncology,Psychology, Experimental
    Semantic information
    Mismatch negativity
    Involuntary attention
    Increases distraction
    Emotional words
    Distributed neuronal networks
    Brain potentials
    Basic emotions
    Auditory distraction
    Acoustic novelty
    Psychology, experimental
    Psychology
    Psicología
    Oncology
    Medicine (miscellaneous)
    Hematology
    General medicine
    Experimental and cognitive psychology
    Enfermagem
    Educação física
    Developmental and educational psychology
    Ciencias sociales
    Ciencias humanas
    Ciências biológicas ii
    Arts and humanities (miscellaneous)
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