title: Attentional states influence early neural responses associated with motivational processes: local vs. global attentional scope and N1 amplitude to appetitive stimuli.
abstract: Positive affects vary in the degree with which they are associated with approach motivation, the drive to approach an object or a goal. High approach-motivated positive affects cause a narrowing of attention, whereas low approach-motivated positive affects causes a broadening of attention. The current study was designed to extend this work by examining whether the relationship between motivation and attentional bias was bi-directional. Specifically, the experiment investigated whether a manipulated local attentional scope would cause greater approach motivational processing than a global attentional scope as measured by neural processes as early as 100 ms. As compared to a global attentional scope, a local attentional scope caused greater neural processing associated with approach motivation as measured by the N1 to appetitive pictures.
authors.affiliation: University of Alabama, Department of Psychology, 505 Hackberry Ln, Tuscaloosa, Al 35487, USA. pagable@gmail.com
authors.forename: Philip A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Gable
authors.forename: Eddie
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Harmon-Jones
mesh_terms: D001066:Appetite / Q000502:physiology*; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D005502:Food; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D055815:Young Adult