Department of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Cogn Emot. 2011 Nov;25(7):1176-83. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2010.524192. Epub 2011 Jun 1.
Several studies have shown that the attentional blink (AB; Raymond, Shapiro, & Arnell, 1992) is diminished for highly arousing T2 stimuli (e.g., Anderson, 2005). Whereas this effect is most often interpreted as evidence for a more efficient processing of arousing information, it could be due also to a bias to report more arousing stimuli than neutral stimuli. We introduce a paradigm that allows one to control for such a response bias. Using this paradigm, we obtained evidence that the diminished AB for taboo words cannot be explained by a response bias. This supports the idea that the emotional modulation of the AB is caused by attentional processes.
几项研究表明，对于高度唤起的 T2 刺激（例如 Anderson，2005），注意力眨眼（AB；Raymond、Shapiro 和 Arnell，1992）会减少。虽然这种效应通常被解释为对唤起信息进行更有效处理的证据，但也可能是由于报告比中性刺激更唤起的刺激的偏向。我们引入了一种范式，可以控制这种反应偏向。使用这种范式，我们获得了证据表明，禁忌词的 AB 减少不能用反应偏向来解释。这支持了这样一种观点，即 AB 的情绪调节是由注意力过程引起的。
