Essays about: "Elmeri Syrjänen"

Found 2 essays containing the words Elmeri Syrjänen.

1. 1. Gender moderates valence effects on the late positive potential to emotional distracters

   University essay from Psykologiska institutionen

   Author : Elmeri Syrjänen; [2013]
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   Abstract : Attention is captured more strongly by emotional pictures than by neutral pictures. This allocation of attention to emotional pictures is commonly indexed by the late positive potential (LPP), an event-related potential (ERP) that is larger for negative and positive pictures than for neutral pictures. READ MORE

3. 2. Attention to the periphery attenuates the EPN and LPP

   University essay from Psykologiska institutionen

   Author : Elmeri Syrjänen; [2011]
   Keywords : Attention; Emotion; Motivation; ERP; EPN; LPP;

   Abstract : Current research shows that emotions have an important role in guiding attention and cognitions especially when the emotional stimuli are affective. Load theory proposes that when the perceptual load on attention is sufficiently high, irrelevant emotional stimuli is no longer attended to and thus will not produce a distracting effect. READ MORE