Shifting attention to emotional faces: With or without eye-movements
We find human faces fascinating and like to look at them, for example in pictures on Instagram. However, when we are on the bus, we find it weird if other people stare at our faces. Therefore, we can only sometimes shift our attention overtly to other people’s faces, i.e. make an eye-movement. Other times, we need to suppress eye-movements and shift attention “covertly”. This study investigates differences in brain mechanisms between overt and covert shifts of attention to emotional faces.
Methods
EEG, Eye-tracking
Publications
Kulke, L., Brümmer, L., Pooresmaeili, A., & Schacht, A. (2019). Overt and covert attention shifts to emotional faces – combining EEG, Eye-tracking and a go/no-go paradigm. Retrieved from osf.io/mqevs
Kulke, L. V., Atkinson, J., & Braddick, O. (2016). Neural differences between covert and overt attention studied using EEG with simultaneous remote eye tracking. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 10, 592.
Contact
Prof. Annekathrin Schacht, schacht@psych.uni-goettingen.de