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Elio Balestrieri¹, Nicholas Menghi², Gaia Lapomarda¹, Clayton Hickey². 1 Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences (DiPSCo), University of Trento, Italy;.
Do angry faces prime spatial attention? Elio Balestrieri¹, Nicholas Menghi², Gaia Lapomarda¹, Clayton Hickey² 1

Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences (DiPSCo), University of Trento, Italy; 2 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Italy

Background

Results

Task-irrelevant angry faces draw more attention than happy faces in Visual Search Task.



Event-related potential research shows that angry faces require attentional suppression but happy faces do not.



Is this suppression a product of strategic attentional set against happy faces? Or does it develop through prior experience with specific distractor stimuli?

One-Way rm ANOVA (df = 26, F = 4.011, p