Graduation Year
2008
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.A.
Degree Granting Department
Psychology
Major Professor
Thomas Sanocki, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Cynthia Cimino, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Ken Malmberg, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Douglas Nelson, Ph.D.
Keywords
Visual development, Affective stimuli, Attention, Emotion, Reinforcement
Abstract
This study aimed to determine whether the rate of perceptual learning in a vernier discrimination task could be influenced by affective images. Forty-eight (30 Female, 18 Male) subjects were instructed to indicate the direction of an offset over 620 trials. Subjects were primed with either negative, positive or neutral photographs before making the discrimination on all test trials. Feedback regarding offset performance was provided on each trial. Despite initial pilot data indicating that subjects primed with negative, arousing images improved performance over those primed with either neutral or positive images, there was ultimately no reliable advantage for any of the affective prime conditions.
Scholar Commons Citation
Sulman, Noah, "The Influence of Valenced Images on Perceptual Learning" (2008). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/520
