Psychological Development and Education ›› 2016, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (5): 521-531.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2016.05.02

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The Effect of Negative Emotion Stimulus on College Students' Performance of Multiple Object Tracking

SU Jing1, DUAN Dongyuan2, ZHANG Xuemin1,3,4   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
    2. Northwest University, Xi'an City, Shanxi Province 710127, China;
    3. National Key Lab of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing 100875, China;
    4. Center for Collaboration and Innovation in Brain and Learning Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
  • Online:2016-09-15 Published:2016-09-15

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Abstract: This study investigated the impact of negative emotion on Multiple Object Tracking tasks and explored its mechanism. Participants were required to complete both multiple objects tracking task and dot-probe detection task after viewing a set of emotional pictures from International Affective Picture System. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and the Beck Depression Inventory were used to measure evoked emotional state. Results showed that: (1) Watching emotional pictures successfully evoked negative emotion; (2) Participants under neutral picture condition performed better than the baseline condition in tracking task, and there's no difference between negative picture condition and the baseline condition, negative emotion suppressed the effect of training. (3) Probe detection results showed that performance under negative emotion condition was lower than neutral condition, indicating negative emotion affected allocation of attention resources during tracking process. The results indicated that: (1) Anxiety impaired goal-directed attentional system, making participants easily affected by stimulus-driven attentional system. (2) Anxiety impaired efficiency of inhibition and shifting functions. of the central executive system.

Key words: college students, Multiple Object Tracking, dot-probe detection, negative emotion, attention allocation

CLC Number: 

  • B844

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