Attention allocation to 2D and 3D emotion-inducing scenes: A neurophysiological study.

Neurosci Lett

Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen, 535, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal; CESPU, Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Rua Central de Gandra, 1317, 4585-116 Gandra PRD, Portugal.

Published: April 2019

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  • Past research on emotions primarily used emotion-inducing slides, but there's a shift towards using more realistic stimuli like 3D and virtual reality scenes.
  • The current study compares the impact of 2D and 3D emotional scenes on attention, measured by the P3 event-related component in participants' EEG signals while completing an auditory task.
  • Findings show that 2D scenes are just as effective as 3D scenes in capturing attention across all emotional types (pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral).

Article Abstract

Past research on emotions was mostly supported on emotion inducing slides, but studies in the field are moving towards more ecological stimuli, including 3D stimuli and virtual reality scenes. The present study aims to compare the effects of two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) emotion-inducing scenes in the modulation of attention, as indexed by the amplitude of the P3 event-related component in a dual-task paradigm. We recorded the EEG signal of 31 healthy male participants performing an active auditory oddball task, while simultaneously observing pleasant, unpleasant and neutral scenes in 2D or 3D. We analyzed the effects of emotional valence and visualization mode in the mean amplitude of the P3 component at Pz. The results revealed than revealed that 2D scenarios were as effective as 3D stimuli in capturing attention resources and this effect was consistently observed in all emotional scenes.

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