ArticleEmotion (Washington, D.C.)2014
How arousal modulates the visual contrast sensitivity function.
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- Heterogeneous Effects of Cognitive Arousal on the Contrast Response in Human Visual Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Pupil-Linked Arousal Modulates Precision of Stimulus Representation in Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Pupil Size Is Sensitive to Low-Level Stimulus Features, Independent of Arousal-Related Modulation.eNeuro · 2023Article
- Acute Alcohol Intake Affects Internal Additive Noise and the Perceptual Template in Visual Perception.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
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- How Does Fearful Emotion Affect Visual Attention?Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- The Inferior Colliculus in Alcoholism and Beyond.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2020Review
- Emotional arousal amplifies competitions across goal-relevant representation: A neurocomputational framework.Cognition · 2019Article
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- Measuring the Contrast Sensitivity Function Using the qCSF Method With 10 Digits.Translational vision science & technology · 2018Article
- Visuocortical changes during a freezing-like state in humans.NeuroImage · 2018Article
- Exposure to arousal-inducing sounds facilitates visual search.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Perceptual salience does not influence emotional arousal's impairing effects on top-down attention.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2017Article
- Effects of smoking and smoking abstinence on spatial vision in chronic heavy smokers.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Inconsistent Effect of Arousal on Early Auditory Perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Comparison of color discrimination in chronic heavy smokers and healthy subjects.F1000Research · 2017Article
- Evaluating the performance of the quick CSF method in detecting contrast sensitivity function changes.Journal of vision · 2016Article
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Abstract
Recent evidence indicates that emotion enhances contrast thresholds in subsequent visual perception (Phelps, Ling, & Carrasco, 2006) and perceptual sensitivity for low-spatial frequency but not high-spatial frequency targets (Bocanegra & Zeelenberg, 2009b). However, these studies just report responses to various frequencies at a fixed contrast level or responses to various contrasts at a fixed frequency. In the current study, we measured the full contrast sensitivity function as a function of emotional arousal in order to investigate potential interactions between spatial frequency and contrast. We used a Bayesian adaptive inference with a trial-to-trial information gain strategy (Lesmes, Lu, Baek, & Albright, 2010) and a fear-conditioned stimulus to manipulate arousal level. The spatial frequency at which people showed peak contrast sensitivity shifted to lower spatial frequencies in the arousing condition compared with the nonarousing condition and people had greater contrast sensitivity function bandwidth in the arousing than in the nonarousing condition.
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