An exploratory study of the effect of high and low fascination environments on attentional fatigue
An exploratory study of the effect of high and low fascination environments on attentional fatigue
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jenvp.2009.12.002
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发表时间：
2010-12-01
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6.9
通讯作者：
Bettella, Sandro
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作者：
Berto, Rita;Baroni, Maria Rosa;Bettella, Sandro
根据注意恢复理论，注意疲劳可以在有吸引人的刺激的环境中得到更新，因为这些刺激可以毫不费力地唤起注意力，并允许定向注意力得到休息和恢复。目前的研究假设，在注意力疲劳状态下执行注意力导向任务，在高吸引力的状态下比在低吸引力的状态下花费更少高吸引力条件也被认为能促进编码过程中的注意力，从而影响刺激材料被记住的可能性。为此，31名被试通过进行持续注意力测试而感到精神疲劳，然后他们执行了一项由波斯纳范式启发的特别注意定向任务，并应用于40张已经评估过吸引力值的环境照片，最后他们执行了附带记忆任务正如预期的那样，只有在高吸引力条件下，参与者在试验之间转移注意力时才表现出显著的好处（反应时间减少）。吸引力对回忆的作用不太清楚，因为它与场景的自然性相互作用(C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved
According to attention restoration theory attentional fatigue can be renewed in environments where fascinating stimuli are present as they evoke effortless attention and allow directed attention to rest and be restored The present study hypothesizes that performing an attention-orienting task in a state of attentional fatigue costs less in a high fascination than in a low fascination condition In the former attentional shifts are expected to be facilitated because one can function in the involuntary mode The high fascination condition is also expected to facilitate attention in the coding process and therefore to affect the likelihood of stimulus material to be remembered To this end 31 subjects were mentally fatigued by performing a sustained attention test Then they performed an ad hoc attention-orienting task inspired by Posner s paradigm and applied to 40 photographs of environments already assessed for their fascination value Finally they performed an incidental memory task As expected only in the high fascination condition did participants show a significant benefit (reaction time reduction) in shifting attention between trials The role of fascination on recall is less clear since it Interacts with the naturalness of the scene (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved