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Record W1979054429 · doi:10.1167/12.9.918

Stress and Visual Attention

2012· article· en· W1979054429 on OpenAlexaff
H. L. Gauchou, Ronald A. Rensink

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Vision · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStress (linguistics)Visual searchTask (project management)PsychologyFeature (linguistics)Cognitive psychologyDebriefingSocial psychologyEngineering

Abstract

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Previous studies have obtained contradictory conclusions regarding the effect of stress on visual attention. Some have reported that stress narrows attentional focus (Callaway and Dembo, 1958); others have reported that stress causes a broadening of attention (Braunstein-Bercovitz, 2003). To help resolve this situation, this study assessed the effect of mild stress on visual search. In a first experiment, two different conditions were used: short line among long lines, and long line among short lines. Prior to each task participants performed either easy (low stress) or difficult (high stress) math tasks (and were told that a debriefing (low stress) or a videotaped interview (high stress) would follow the experiment. The Short Stress State Questionnaire (Helton, 2004) measured stress induction effectiveness. Results show no difference in accuracy for different stress levels, but significantly faster response times and lower search slopes for the high-stress condition. In a second experiment using the same method we compared the effect of stress on two different tasks: conjunction search and feature search (similar to experiment 1). For the feature search task results show no difference in accuracy for different stress levels but significantly lower search slopes for the high-stress condition; For the conjunction search task, accuracy, response times and search slopes do not differ accross stress levels. The findings support the hypothesis of a broadening effect of stress on visual attention. Meeting abstract presented at VSS 2012

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.009

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.115
GPT teacher head0.441
Teacher spread0.326 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2012
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