Living or dying? The influence of emotions triggered by words on manual reaction times
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Affective Spatial Compatibility Task, Affective Valence, Temporal DynamicsAbstract
: Affective stimuli influence behavior due to facilitations/inhibitions that occur in the sensory-motor system. For positive stimuli, ipsilateral responses tend to be facilitated and contralateral inhibited. For negative stimuli, the pattern is reversed. Currently, 34 volunteers were submitted to the Affective Spatial Compatibility Task, whose innate valence stimuli were the words "living" and "dying". In mapping 1, ipsilateral responses were executed for the word "living" and contralateral for the word "dying". In mapping 2, the reverse occurred. Using temporal analysis, we investigated whether and how words that trigger innate emotions modulate the motor response. In mapping 1, we found slower ipsilateral responses to the word "living" than contralateral responses to the word "dying" (from the 3rd quintile). However, mapping 2 revealed a difference only in the 3rd quintile. The facilitating effects of the contralateral response to the negative stimulus are possibly associated with automatic vigilance mechanisms to detect/avoid threatening stimuli.
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