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SUBMITTER: Pecchinenda A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5154609 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pecchinenda Anna A Petrucci Manuel M
PloS one 20161213 12
Direction of eye gaze cues spatial attention, and typically this cueing effect is not modulated by the expression of a face unless top-down processes are explicitly or implicitly involved. To investigate the role of cognitive control on gaze cueing by emotional faces, participants performed a gaze cueing task with happy, angry, or neutral faces under high (i.e., counting backward by 7) or low cognitive load (i.e., counting forward by 2). Results show that high cognitive load enhances gaze cueing ...[more]