Detecting emotion faces in a Posner’s spatial cueing task: the adaptive value of surprise

León, Fernando Gordillo; Hernández, Lilia Mestas; Nieto, Miguel Ángel Pérez; Martínez, José María Arana

doi:10.1080/20445911.2020.1862854

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“…This is contrary to our hypothesis that regular nondisordered poker players would display higher information attention abilities compared to controls for the types of emotion that may be useful is the context of poker, i.e., joy, sadness, and surprise. Indeed, the processing efficiency hypothesis ( Calvo, Avero, & Lundqvist, 2006 ; Gordillo León, Mestas Hernández, Pérez Nieto, & Arana Martínez, 2021 ) postulates that negative stimuli (especially fear) is processed more efficiently than neutral or positive stimuli to react more quickly. For example, in studies regarding spatial attention, fear is the main emotion that is known to automatically capture attention ( Bannerman, Milders, de Gelder, & Sahraie, 2009 ).…”

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Spatial attention to social information in poker: A neuropsychological study using the Posner cueing paradigm

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Background and aimsThis research aimed to characterize social information processing abilities in a population of regular nondisordered poker players compared to controls.MethodsParticipants completed the Posner cueing paradigm task including social cues (faces) to assess attention allocation towards social stimuli, including the effect of the presentation time (subliminal vs supraliminal) and of the emotion displayed. The study included two groups of participants: 30 regular nondisordered poker players (those who played at least three times a week in Texas Hold'em poker games for at least three months) and 30 control participants (those who did not gamble or gambled less than once a month, whatever the game).ResultsThe group of regular nondisordered poker players displayed an enhancement of the inhibition of return during the Posner cueing task. This means that in valid trials, they took longer to respond to the already processed localization in supraliminal conditions compared to controls. However, our results did not evidence any particular engagement or disengagement attention abilities toward specific types of emotion.Discussion and ConclusionsThese results suggest that regular nondisordered poker players displayed social information processing abilities, which may be due to the importance to efficiently process social information that can serve as tells in live poker. The observed enhancement of the inhibition of return may permit poker players to not process a localization that has already processed to save attentional resources. Further research regarding the establishment of the IOR in other forms of gambling and with non-social cues needs to be performed.

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