Auditory Emotional Cues Enhance Visual Perception

Autor/inn/en	Zeelenberg, Rene; Bocanegra, Bruno R.
Titel	Auditory Emotional Cues Enhance Visual Perception
Quelle	In: Cognition, 115 (2010) 1, S.202-206 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2009.12.004
Schlagwörter	Cues; Visual Perception; Auditory Stimuli; Visual Stimuli; Emotional Response; Auditory Perception + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Auditive Stimulation; Emotionales Verhalten; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik
Abstract	Recent studies show that emotional stimuli impair performance to subsequently presented neutral stimuli. Here we show a cross-modal perceptual enhancement caused by emotional cues. Auditory cue words were followed by a visually presented neutral target word. Two-alternative forced-choice identification of the visual target was improved by emotional cues as compared to neutral cues. When the cue was presented visually we replicated the emotion-induced impairment found in other studies. Our results suggest emotional stimuli have a twofold effect on perception. They impair perception by reflexively attracting attention at the expense of competing stimuli. However, emotional stimuli also induce a nonspecific perceptual enhancement that carries over onto other stimuli when competition is reduced, for example, by presenting stimuli in different modalities. (Contains 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10