Look - don't look! : How emotional pictures affect pro- and anti-saccades

Kissler, Johanna; Keil, Andreas

Look - don't look! : How emotional pictures affect pro- and anti-saccades

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2008

Authors

Kissler, Johanna

Keil, Andreas

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Journal article

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Experimental Brain Research ; 188 (2008), 2. - pp. 215-222

Abstract

We investigated the effect of emotional target content on the generation of pro- and anti-saccades. Subjects had to generate saccades towards (pro-saccade) or away from (anti-saccade) peripherally presented pleasant, unpleasant or neutral pictures. Two different SOAs were used, either with simultaneous fixation offset and target onset (no gap) or with fixation offset preceding target onset by 200 ms (gap). In the pro-saccade task participants were faster to respond to emotional pictures in the left visual field. In the right visual field facilitation occurred only for pleasant pictures and saccadic reaction times towards unpleasant pictures were slowed. In the anti-saccade task more anti-saccade errors towards emotional pictures (pleasant and unpleasant) were made in the gap condition. On the whole, endogenous saccade generation appears facilitated by emotional target content, probably via increased input from extra-striate and parietal brain areas to the superior colliculus. Moderating factors such as the SOA or the visual field of presentation are discussed.

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150 Psychology

Keywords

emotion,eye movement,anti-saccade,pro-saccade,superior colliculus

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KISSLER, Johanna, Andreas KEIL, 2008. Look - don't look! : How emotional pictures affect pro- and anti-saccades. In: Experimental Brain Research. 188(2), pp. 215-222. Available under: doi: 10.1007/s00221-008-1358-0

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@article{Kissler2008emoti-1392,
  year={2008},
  doi={10.1007/s00221-008-1358-0},
  title={Look - don't look! : How emotional pictures affect pro- and anti-saccades},
  number={2},
  volume={188},
  journal={Experimental Brain Research},
  pages={215--222},
  author={Kissler, Johanna and Keil, Andreas}
}

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