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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 15.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2011 Jan 14;187(1-2):24–29. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.12.018

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Figure 1a. Emotion maintenance and brightness maintenance task. For the emotion maintenance task a positive or negative target picture was viewed for 5s and the experience of emotional intensity was maintained over a 3s delay. A separate probe picture of the same valence image was viewed for 5s. After the images, participants indicated whether the probe was experienced as more or less emotionally intense than the target. Participants completed an analogous brightness maintenance task which was identical except neutral images were viewed and the experience of brightness intensity was maintained. Figure originally printed in Mikels et al., 2008 Emotion 8(2), 256–266, APA.

Figure 1b. Emotion and brightness rating task. After both maintenance tasks were completed participants rated their in-the-moment experience of emotion to emotion images on emotion intensity, and their in-the-moment brightness experience to the brightness (neutral) images, all using a visual analog scale. Using the computer mouse, participants clicked along the continuum for their experience rating.