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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Decision Science

Background:

  • Emotion-guided endogenous attention influences environmental emotional assessment.
  • Previous research focused on single-stimulus perception, neglecting multi-source evidence integration.
  • Understanding attention's role in integrating emotional cues is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how endogenous attention affects emotion evidence integration across multiple sources.
  • To explore the cognitive and computational mechanisms underlying attention-modulated emotion perception.

Main Methods:

  • Human participants (N=40) judged average emotion from face arrays (fearful to happy).
  • Endogenous attention was manipulated via task instructions (fear- vs. happy-attention).
  • Eye-tracking and computational modeling were employed to analyze behavior and decision processes.

Main Results:

  • Endogenous attention induced a sampling bias towards evidence congruent with the cued emotion.
  • Participants showed increased attention to extreme emotional stimuli matching the target.
  • Computational models indicated a more conservative decision criterion under directed attention, reducing target-category decisions.

Conclusions:

  • Endogenous attention significantly impacts how emotional evidence is gathered and integrated.
  • Directed attention biases evidence sampling and shifts decision criteria.
  • Findings elucidate the mechanisms of emotion-related decision-making and attention's role therein.