Gone for good: Lack of priming suggests early perceptual interference in emotion-induced blindness with negative stimuli.

In this study, we used a priming task to assess these alternative possibilities. Each emotion-induced blindness trial was immediately followed by a speeded arrow judgment task, in which the arrow’s orientation could be congruent or incongruent with the orientation of an emotion-induced blindness target. Analyses revealed strong evidence that seen targets primed the arrow judgment, but there was moderate to strong evidence that unseen targets elicited no priming whatsoever. These results lend support to claims that emotion-induced blindness reflects failure to perceptually encode target information, and may reflect a different mechanism from the phenomenally similar attentional blink. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Emotion - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research