Effects of bottom-up and top-down attentional processes on change blindness for COVID-related stimuli: influence of heart rate variability
Francesca Favieri, Giovanna Troisi, Giuseppe Forte, Ilaria Corbo, Giulia Marselli, Barbara Blasutto, Renato Ponce, Enrico Di Pace, Viviana Langher, Renata Tambelli, Maria Casagrande · 2024
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Francesca Favieri and co-authors test, in a 2024 study, whether the pandemic still bends attention years later. Ninety-six students played a flicker task, spotting the one detail that changes between two versions of a scene. The changed detail sat either in the scene's center of interest or at its margins, and the scenes were neutral, negative, or tied to COVID-19. Heart rate variability was recorded alongside.
Changes in pandemic scenes were spotted more slowly than in negative or neutral ones, whether the change was central or marginal. That pattern implicates both fast, stimulus-driven attention and slower, goal-driven attention. Body signals mattered too: heart rate patterns tracked with slower spotting of central changes in the pandemic scenes. The authors read the result as a lasting cognitive footprint of the pandemic period, written into how attention and the autonomic system answer threat-linked images.
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| CREATOR | Francesca Favieri, Giovanna Troisi, Giuseppe Forte, Ilaria Corbo, Giulia Marselli, Barbara Blasutto, Renato Ponce, Enrico Di Pace, Viviana Langher, Renata Tambelli, Maria Casagrande |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |