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Brain Imaging Investigation of the Impairing Effect of Emotion on Cognition
Published on: February 1, 2012
[INDIVIDUAL FEATURES VIEWING EMOTIONALLY MEANINGFUL IMAGES]
Abstract:
The data on the individual features of eye movements during viewing affective images from IAPS have been presented. The results suggest that the nature of the viewing of the trajectories for each subject (n = 20) is saved at a presentation of images with different emotional content. All examinees showed a significant correlation between the number of tests in which detected a region of interest, in three combinations: between negative and positive images, negative and neutral, neutral and positive (r = 0.84; 0.78 and 0.77 respectively). A similar correlation was found for the fixation duration (r = 0.90; 0.82; 0.90). It is shown that the number of points of fixation in the areas of interest, the area of the field viewing and the fixation duration significantly different between the two groups examinees (with a predominance of focal or scanning inspection trajectories). The possibility of using emotionally meaningful images to evaluate the dominaте type of visual attention on the parameters of eye movements of a particular person is discussed.
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