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Artur Czeszumski¹, Friederike Albers¹, Sven Walter¹

¹Institute of Cognitive Science, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany.

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Bodily actions influence emotions and visual attention. Performing congruent movements increased attention to images on news web pages, demonstrating embodied cognition

Keywords:

approach avoidance task automatic approach bias cognitive bias modification embodiment emotions eye-tracking overt attention

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Science
Embodied Cognition
Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

The embodied approach posits that cognition is shaped by physical embodiment and bodily actions.
Previous research explored emotional priming, but the interplay with visual exploration needs further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine how bodily congruent actions influence emotional states and subsequent visual exploration of web page content.
To investigate the interaction between emotions, body movements, and visual attention in a digital environment.

Main Methods:

Participants engaged in a joystick-based approach-avoidance task to induce emotional states.
Following the priming task, participants viewed news web pages, and their eye movements were recorded.
Metrics included fixation count, dwell time, and saccade length to assess visual attention.

Main Results:

Increased number of fixations on images after congruent priming.
Extended total dwell time on image content.
Reduced average saccade length from outside to inside images, indicating focused attention.

Conclusions:

Bodily congruent actions enhance visual attention towards image content on web pages.
Embodied interaction in a priming phase can foster deeper visual engagement in a subsequent exploration phase.
This study supports the embodied cognition framework by linking physical actions to visual information processing.