Sustained training with novel distractors attenuates the behavioral interference of emotional pictures but does not affect the electrocortical markers of emotional processing
Vera Ferrari,
Francesca Canturi,
Andrea De Cesarei
et al.
Abstract:IntroductionResearch has recently shown that behavioral interference prompted by emotional distractors is subject to habituation when the same exemplars are repeated, but promptly recovers in response to novel stimuli. The present study investigated whether prolonged experience with distractors that were all novel was effective in shaping the attentional filter, favoring stable and generalizable inhibition effects.MethodsTo test this, the impact of emotional distractors was measured before and after a sustaine… Show more
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