Gädeke, JC, Foecker, Julia and Röder, B (2013) Is the processing of affective prosody influenced by spatial attention? An ERP study. BMC Neuroscience . ISSN ISSN: 1471-2202
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Abstract
BACKGROUND:
The present study asked whether the processing of affective prosody is modulated by spatial attention. Pseudo-words with a neutral, happy, threatening, and fearful prosody were presented at two spatial positions. Participants attended to one position in order to detect infrequent targets. Emotional prosody was task irrelevant. The electro-encephalogram (EEG) was recorded to assess processing differences as a function of spatial attention and emotional valence.
RESULTS:
Event-related potentials (ERPs) differed as a function of emotional prosody both when attended and when unattended. While emotional prosody effects interacted with effects of spatial attention at early processing levels (< 200 ms), these effects were additive at later processing stages (> 200 ms).
CONCLUSIONS:
Emotional prosody, therefore, seems to be partially processed outside the focus of spatial attention. Whereas at early sensory processing stages spatial attention modulates the degree of emotional voice processing as a function of emotional valence, emotional prosody is processed outside of the focus of spatial attention at later processing stages.
Keywords: | ERPs, emotion, attention, voices |
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Subjects: | C Biological Sciences > C800 Psychology |
Divisions: | College of Social Science > School of Psychology |
ID Code: | 32883 |
Deposited On: | 09 Aug 2018 14:58 |
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