Rewarding outcomes enhance attentional capture and delay attentional disengagement

Author:

Yan Minmin1,Meng Zong1,Hu Na2,Chen Antao3

Affiliation:

1. Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

2. Department of Preschool & Special Education, Kunming University, Kunming, China

3. School of Psychology, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, China

Abstract

Attentional capture and disengagement are distinct process involved in attentional orienting. Most current studies have examined either the process of attentional capture or disengagement by manipulating stimuli associated with either positive (gains) or negative outcomes (losses). However, few studies have investigated whether attentional capture and disengagement are modulated by reward and loss outcomes. In the current study, we want to examine whether positive or negative outcomes could modulate distinguishing process of attentional capture and disengagement. Here, we manipulated different colored singleton stimuli associated with reward or loss outcomes; these stimuli were either presented at the center of screen or at the peripheral location. The participants’ task was to search the target and identify the orientation of line segment in target as quickly as possible. The results showed that people had difficulty disengaging from a central reward-distractor, in comparison to loss- and neutral-distractor when target was presented at peripheral location. Similarly, peripheral reward-distractor captured more attention than loss- and neutral-distractor when target was presented at the center of screen after central fixation disappeared. Through our discoveries, we can conclude that positive rewards can increase attentional capture and delay attentional disengagement in healthy people.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Annual 2022 Joint Project of Basic Research in local universities (part) in Yunnan Province

Publisher

PeerJ

Subject

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine,General Neuroscience

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