Fig 2.

Effect of emotional distracters on global and local target detection performance. As opposed to neutral stimuli the effects of unpleasant stimuli on number of errors depended on the processing level of the target with less errors committed to local and more errors to global targets. Unpleasant distracters were associated with slower and less accurate responding to global targets than local targets. While global performance in context of visual distracters was overall worse than local performance, pleasant and neutral distracters impaired either speed or accuracy to global targets in comparison to local targets, but not both like unpleasant distracters did.