Post-determined emotion: motor action retrospectively modulates emotional valence of visual images

Sasaki, Kyoshiro; Yamada, Yuki; Miura, Kayo

doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.0690

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“…Based on theory of embodied cognition and metaphor congruency effect, Sasaki et al (2015) hypothesized that if postdiction can also occur in emotional processing, the emotional valence of visual stimuli would be reconstructed by the subsequent “vertical” information activated by bodily movements. In their experiments, participants were instructed to move a dot on a touch panel (virtually, participants’ hand) upward, downward, leftward, or rightward after the presentation of visual stimuli representing positive, negative, and neutral emotions.…”

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Metaphorical Action Retrospectively but Not Prospectively Alters Emotional Judgment

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Metaphorical association between vertical space and emotional valence is activated by bodily movement toward the corresponding space. Upward or downward manual movement “following” observation of emotional images is reported to alter the perceived valence as more positive or negative. This study aimed to clarify this retrospective emotional modulation. Experiment 1 investigated the effects of temporal order of emotional stimuli and manual movements. Participants performed upward, downward, or horizontal manual movements immediately before or after observation of emotional images; they then rated the valence of the image. The images were rated as more negative in downward- than in horizontal-movement conditions only when the movements followed the image observation. Upward movement showed no effect. Experiment 2 examined the effects of temporal proximity between images, movements, and ratings. The results showed that a 2-s interval either between image and movement or movement and rating nullified the retrospective effect. Bodily movement that corresponds to space–valence metaphor retrospectively, but not prospectively, alters the perceived valence of emotional stimuli. This effect requires temporal proximity between emotional stimulus, the subsequent movement, and rating of the stimulus. With respect to the lack of effect of upward–positive correspondence, anisotropy in effects of movement direction is discussed.

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“…Nevertheless, the underlying mechanisms of the metaphorical, postdictive modulation of emotional valence by bodily movements ( Sasaki et al, 2015 ) have yet to be fully understood. Specifically, it remains unclear whether this effect is limited to be postdictive or can be generalized to the predictive or prospective effect.…”

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Metaphorical Action Retrospectively but Not Prospectively Alters Emotional Judgment

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“…In addition, backward masking is also considered to be a kind of postdictive effect, showing that a masking stimulus that is presented later can suppress the visibility of a target that is presented earlier (i.e., Bakhman, 1994). In addition to these low-level simple phenomena, postdictive effect could also emerge in high-level perceptions like causality perception (Choi & Scholl, 2006) and emotional processing (Sasaki, Yamada, & Miura, 2015). Choi and Scholl (2006) demonstrated that participants perceived a collision between two objects (i.e., one ball cause the other to move) in an ambiguous display even after the moment of potential overlap for collision has already passed.…”

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“…Choi and Scholl (2006) demonstrated that participants perceived a collision between two objects (i.e., one ball cause the other to move) in an ambiguous display even after the moment of potential overlap for collision has already passed. Sasaki et al (2015) found that when participants were required to drag a dot up or down on the screen immediately after showing an emotional image, they would rate the image more positive if the dragging action was up and rate it more negative if the dragging action was down.…”

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The postdictive effect of choice reflects the modulation of attention on choice

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Zhou²,

Chen³

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Our conscious perception of the world is not an instantaneous moment-by-moment construction, but rather the information subsequent in time seems to affect the percept of the prior event, which was known as postdictive effect. A recent study reported this postdictive effect could even occur in choice decision. The present study sought to test whether the striking postdictive effect of choice reflects the modulation of attention on choice, by directly and systematically manipulating attention in two experiments. Specifically, Experiment 1 revealed that the robust postdictive effect of choice was almost completely eliminated when the attentional bias triggered by a sudden color change was removed. More importantly, Experiment 2 demonstrated that the postdictive effect of choice could be modulated by directly manipulating participants’ attention with a spatial cue, in particular when the cue appeared at short time delays (less than 500 ms). These findings suggest that choice decision could be considerably postdicted by attention and this effect was most pronounced within a short time window wherein the decision was most likely in progress.

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“…Specifically, it has been argued that abstract and emotion concepts have sensorimotor properties much like concrete concepts. For example, it has been shown that there is a metaphorical association between emotionally valenced concepts and the vertical plane (e.g., Meier and Robinson, 2004 ; Meier et al, 2011 ; Sasaki et al, 2012 , 2015 ; Santiago et al, 2012 ; Marmolejo-Ramos and Dunn, 2013 ; Marmolejo-Ramos et al, 2013 , 2014 ; Xie et al, 2014 , 2015 ; Damjanovic and Santiago, 2015 ). Most of the work on the association between emotion words and the vertical axis has used visual words as typical experimental stimuli.…”

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Cross-modal metaphorical mapping of spoken emotion words onto vertical space

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From the field of embodied cognition, previous studies have reported evidence of metaphorical mapping of emotion concepts onto a vertical spatial axis. Most of the work on this topic has used visual words as the typical experimental stimuli. However, to our knowledge, no previous study has examined the association between affect and vertical space using a cross-modal procedure. The current research is a first step toward the study of the metaphorical mapping of emotions onto vertical space by means of an auditory to visual cross-modal paradigm. In the present study, we examined whether auditory words with an emotional valence can interact with the vertical visual space according to a ‘positive-up/negative-down’ embodied metaphor. The general method consisted in the presentation of a spoken word denoting a positive/negative emotion prior to the spatial localization of a visual target in an upper or lower position. In Experiment 1, the spoken words were passively heard by the participants and no reliable interaction between emotion concepts and bodily simulated space was found. In contrast, Experiment 2 required more active listening of the auditory stimuli. A metaphorical mapping of affect and space was evident but limited to the participants engaged in an emotion-focused task. Our results suggest that the association of affective valence and vertical space is not activated automatically during speech processing since an explicit semantic and/or emotional evaluation of the emotionally valenced stimuli was necessary to obtain an embodied effect. The results are discussed within the framework of the embodiment hypothesis.

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Post-determined emotion: motor action retrospectively modulates emotional valence of visual images

Cited by 22 publications

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Metaphorical Action Retrospectively but Not Prospectively Alters Emotional Judgment

Metaphorical Action Retrospectively but Not Prospectively Alters Emotional Judgment

The postdictive effect of choice reflects the modulation of attention on choice

Cross-modal metaphorical mapping of spoken emotion words onto vertical space

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