The present study examined the reliability of a dichotic emotion recognition task under three different conditions presumed to provide different levels of control of attention deployment. Sixty right-handed undergraduate students were randomly assigned to one of the three conditions. The task involved dichotic presentation of words pronounced in an angry, happy, sad, or neutral, emotional tone. The free recall condition applied no attention control. It required participants to report the emotion heard in each ear. Both the monitoring and ABX conditions presumably forced participants to divide their attention equally between the ears. In monitoring, participants were required to indicate when a target emotion was presented to either ear. Finally, the ABX condition required participants to indicate whether the emotional tone of a binaural stimulus matched either of the dichotic stimuli on the same trial. Results showed the expected left ear advantage (LEA). In addition, the monitoring and ABX procedures were found to be somewhat more reliable than the free recall procedure. The present study suggests that control of attention deployment strategies is critical in the reliable assessment of laterality. Issues related to task difficulty and its effect on the reliability and magnitude of laterality effects are also discussed.

Download full-text PDF

Source
http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/jcen.24.5.605.1007DOI Listing

Publication Analysis

Top Keywords

laterality effects
8
dichotic emotion
8
emotion recognition
8
recognition task
8
three conditions
8
control attention
8
attention deployment
8
emotional tone
8
free recall
8
required participants
8

Similar Publications

Introduction: The core objective of this study was to precisely locate metastatic lymph nodes, identify potential areas in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients that may not require radiotherapy, and propose a hypothesis for reduced target volume radiotherapy on the basis of these findings. Ultimately, we reassessed the differences in dosimetry of organs at risk (OARs) between reduced target volume (reduced CTV2) radiotherapy and standard radiotherapy.

Methods And Materials: A total of 209 patients participated in the study.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Purpose: This study aimed to assess the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) angle in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) deficient knees and correlate it with anatomical and demographic factors such as tibial slope, anterior tibial translation, age, gender, and time of injury.

Material And Methods: Patients were eligible for inclusion if they were clinically diagnosed with an ACL tear confirmed by MRI. For each patient, the following parameters were evaluated: PCL angle (PCLA), medial tibial slope (MTS), lateral tibial slope (LTS), medial anterior tibial translation (MATT), and lateral anterior tibial translation (LATT).

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Slopes influenced by multiple faults are prone to large-scale landslides triggered by multi-regional failures. Understanding the failure process and sequence is essential for the sustainable development of mining operations. This paper presents a method combining InSAR monitoring and numerical simulation to analyze the failure processes of slopes affected by multiple faults.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Phase transitions in the mantle control its internal dynamics and structure. The post-spinel transition marks the upper-lower mantle boundary, where ringwoodite dissociates into bridgmanite plus ferropericlase, and its Clapeyron slope regulates mantle flow across it. This interaction has previously been assumed to have no lateral spatial variations, based on the assumption of a linear post-spinel boundary in pressure and temperature.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Morphological map of the proximal ulna bare area: a computer-assisted anatomical study in relation to olecranon osteotomy.

J Shoulder Elbow Surg

January 2025

Department of Orthopedics and Trauma, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing 100044, China; Key Laboratory of Trauma and Neural Regeneration (Peking University), Ministry of Education, Beijing 100044, China; National Center for Trauma Medicine, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing 100044, China. Electronic address:

Objective: The bare area is defined as a transverse region within the trochlear notch, serving as an optimal entry point for olecranon osteotomy due to the absence of articular cartilage coverage. However, there is limited research on the morphology and location of the bare area, and there is a lack of intuitive visual description. Thus, the purpose of this study is to delineate anatomical features of the bare area and visualize its morphology and refine the olecranon osteotomy approach.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?

Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!