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esults will be found as for Experiment 6 with a central/peripheral trade-off for
negative, but not neutral or positive, stimuli. We hypothesise that a
central/peripheral trade-off in memory for scenes containing negative objects
will be associated with attentional effects at encoding.
Section 4.2. Method
Design
A within-participants mixed list design was used with scenes of a
neutral background and either a negative, neutral or positive object to examine
participants’ eye movements at the time of encoding.
Participants
Twenty-one participants were tested but data from 3 were excluded as
their eye movement data did not record accurately (see Results for details).
Data from 18 participants (11 female) is included in the analysis. All
participants were native English speaking University of Nottingham students
(mean age = 20.11 years, SD = 4.90). Informed consent was obtained from all
participants. Participants received an inconvenience allowance of £4 for their
voluntary participation.
Materials
The same stimuli were used in this experiment as in Experiment 6. The
location of some of the objects in the scenes was altered from Experiment 6 to
counterbalance the location of the object in the scenes; for 50% of trials the
object was located centrally (in the same location as the pre-trial fixation cross)
and for 50% of trials the object appeared at a non-central location, requiring
participants to make an eye movement to fixate on the object and away from
the fixation cross. A Sensorimotoric iViewX Remote Eye-tracking Device was
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