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Imhoff, Roland, Barker, Paul ORCID: 0000-0002-0640-9996 and Schmidt, Alexander F. ORCID: 0000-0001-6449-2946 (2020). To What Extent Do Erotic Images Elicit Visuospatial versus Cognitive Attentional Processes? Consistent Support for a (Non-Spatial) Sexual Content-Induced Delay. Arch. Sex. Behav., 49 (2). S. 531 - 551. NEW YORK: SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS. ISSN 1573-2800

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Abstract

It is almost a cultural truism that erotic images attract our attention, presumably because paying attention to erotic stimuli provided our ancestors with mating benefits. Attention, however, can be narrowly defined as visuospatial attention (keeping such stimuli in view) or more broadly as cognitive attention (such stimuli taking up one's thoughts). We present four independent studies aiming to test the extent to which erotic images have priority in capturing visuospatial versus cognitive attention. Whereas the former would show in quicker reactions to stimuli presented in locations where erotic images appeared previously, the latter causes delayed responding after erotic images, independent of their location). To this end, we specifically modified spatial cueing tasks to disentangle visuospatial attention capture from general sexual content-induced delay (SCID) effects-a major drawback in the previous literature. Consistently across all studies (total N = 399), we found no evidence in support of visuospatial attention capture but reliably observed an unspecific delay of responding for trials in which erotic images appeared (irrespective of cue location). This SCID is equally large for heterosexual men and women and reliably associated with their self-reported sexual excitability.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Imhoff, Roland UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Barker, Paul UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-0640-9996 UNSPECIFIED Schmidt, Alexander F. UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-6449-2946 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-128105
DOI:	10.1007/s10508-019-01512-0
Journal or Publication Title:	Arch. Sex. Behav.
Volume:	49
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 531 - 551
Date:	2020
Publisher:	SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
Place of Publication:	NEW YORK
ISSN:	1573-2800
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language PROLONGED RESPONSE LATENCIES; VIEWING TIME; SPATIAL ATTENTION; AROUSING DISTRACTORS; ATTRACTIVE TARGETS; GENDER-DIFFERENCES; EYE-MOVEMENTS; STIMULI; ORIENTATION; ALLOCATION Multiple languages Psychology, Clinical; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/12810