The relationship between line bisection performance and emotion processing: Where do you draw the line?

Hatin, Bianca; Tottenham, Laurie Sykes

doi:10.1080/1357650x.2015.1134564

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“…They found that the evocative impact of the painting correlated with the line bisection bias (i.e., stronger emotional evocation-regardless of valence-was related to smaller rightward bias). However, Hatin and Tottenham [37] reported different findings when using the same paintings as Drago et al, presented in a mirrored and non-mirrored version. Using visual-analog and numeric scales, either ascending and descending, subjects rated the evocative impact of each painting and its mirror version, after which they performed a paper-and-pencil line bisection task.…”

Section: Artworkmentioning

confidence: 86%

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A Systematic Review on the Interaction between Emotion and Pseudoneglect

2021

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Background: A large body of research has shown brain asymmetries in spatial attention. Specifically, there is an attention-processing advantage for the left visual field in healthy, right-handed subjects, known as “pseudoneglect.” Several studies have revealed that emotions modulate this basic spatial phenomenon, but the direction of the effect is still unclear. Here we systematically review empirical evidence on the behavioral effects of emotion on pseudoneglect. Methods: We searched through Pubmed, Scopus, PsycINFO, and PsychArticles. Original peer-reviewed articles published until February 2021 were included if they (1) were written in English; (2) were conducted on adults; (3) included at least one task to measure pseudoneglect, and (4) included at least one task with emotional stimuli or employed a measure of emotional state/trait, as they relate to pseudoneglect. Results: Fifteen studies were included, and 784 healthy participants took part in all studies reviewed. Discussion: The results show some evidence of emotion modulation of pseudoneglect, but evidence on the direction of the effect is mixed. We discuss the role of methodological factors that could account for the available findings and the implications for emotion asymmetry hypotheses such as the right-hemisphere hypothesis, the valence-specific hypothesis, as well as neural and arousal frameworks of attention–emotion interactions.

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Section: Artworkmentioning

confidence: 86%

“…Three studies examined how aesthetic judgments of paintings with emotional connotations affect pseudoneglect [36][37][38]. Drago et al [36] asked subjects to rate the evocative impact of each painting and to perform a paper-and-pencil line bisection task after painting viewing.…”

Section: Artworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Systematic Review on the Interaction between Emotion and Pseudoneglect

2021

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“…In some cases, spirals express negative emotions, and twirls show confusion and dizziness [ 18 ]. The visuospatial bias correlates with human emotion [ 19 ]. Thus, designers like to clearly express characters’ emotion by placing lines appropriately in the scenes of an animation [ 20 ].…”

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The subconscious impact of line orientations in background images on memory of Chinese written characters

Huang

Zhang

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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Oriented lines impact human cognition subconsciously. This study aimed to determine whether line orientations in the background of Chinese written characters influenced individual’s memory and emotion. Five pictures with Chinese characters as experimental material, in which four had equidistant parallel lines (0°, -45°, 90°, and +45°) as background and the other one had a blank background, were presented on a personal computer screen, for 15 seconds each, to 94 participants. The participants were then given 45 seconds to write down what they had just memorized. Participants’ emotion was identified by their Heart Rate Variability (HRV) simultaneously during the viewing process. The results showed that vertical (90°) and 45° leftward leaning lines (-45°) did not weaken users’ memory, and no significant difference in memory was found between these two states and the blank background, while horizontal (0°) and 45° rightward leaning lines (+45°) weakened the memory effect significantly. Overall, memory decreased in the condition of horizontally lined background while no influence in vertically lined background condition; and it showed asymmetry under leftward and rightward leaning line conditions: memory decreased in rightward leaning lined background while no influence in leftward lined background. Moreover, the results of emotion and memory showed negative similar trend. These findings provide practical suggestions for visual information design.

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“…Whether being presented with a painting also affects the allocation of spatial attention as measured by line bisection, due to possible different recruitment of the two hemispheres during art-viewing, has never been directly investigated. This issue is even more interesting when considering that there may be a relationship between the "default" spatial attentional bias of an individual and her/his evocative reactions to visual art (i.e., the larger the leftward bias, the higher the emotional reaction of that individual to visual art; Drago et al, 2008), possibly due to spatial attention and emotional processing both involving the right temporo-parietal region (Drago et al, 2008; but see Hatin & Tottenham, 2016).…”

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Viewing of figurative paintings affects pseudoneglect as measured by line bisection

Ciricugno¹,

Ferrari

Rusconi

et al. 2020

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Neurologically intact individuals usually show a leftward bias in spatial attention, known as pseudoneglect, likely reflecting a right-hemisphere dominance in the control of spatial attention. A leftward bias also seems to manifest when individuals are asked to provide aesthetic judgments about visual stimuli, like artworks. However, whether artwork perception affects the allocation of spatial attention has never been directly investigated. Here, we assessed whether viewing figurative paintings affects hemispheric imbalance in the control of spatial attention by asking participants to bisect a series of lines presented on a grey background, on figurative paintings or on non-artistic photographs of real-world scenes, while either simply observing or explicitly evaluating each image. In line with previous evidence, participants showed a leftward bisection bias in the baseline condition, reflecting pseudoneglect. Critically, the presence of a painting in the background (irrespective of whether an aesthetic evaluation was required or not) significantly shifted the bias further to the left compared to when lines were bisected over a grey background (baseline) or a photographed scene. This finding suggests that perception of visual art may affect the control of spatial attention, possibly tapping on right-hemisphere resources related to visuospatial exploration, regardless of reward apprehension mechanisms (at least when images do not evoke strong emotional reactions leading to polarized like/dislike judgements).

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The relationship between line bisection performance and emotion processing: Where do you draw the line?

Cited by 4 publications

References 65 publications

A Systematic Review on the Interaction between Emotion and Pseudoneglect

A Systematic Review on the Interaction between Emotion and Pseudoneglect

The subconscious impact of line orientations in background images on memory of Chinese written characters

Viewing of figurative paintings affects pseudoneglect as measured by line bisection

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