Clean air captures attention whereas pollution distracts:evidence from brain activities

作     者：Jianxun Yang Yunqi Liu Berry van den Berg Susie Wang Lele Chen Miaomiao Liu Jun Bi Jianxun Yang;Yunqi Liu;Berry van den Berg;Susie Wang;Lele Chen;Miaomiao Liu;Jun Bi

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource ReuseSchool of the EnvironmentNanjing UniversityNanjing 210023China Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology(CICAEET)Nanjing University of Information Science&TechnologyNanjing 210044China Nanjing Foreign Language SchoolNanjing 210008China Department of Experimental PsychologyUniversity of GroningenGrote Kruisstraat 2/19712 TSGroningenThe Netherlands Department of Social PsychologyUniversity of GroningenGrote Kruisstraat 2/19712 TSGroningenThe Netherlands School of Education ScienceNantong UniversityNantong 226019China 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering》 (环境科学与工程前沿（英文）)

年 卷 期：2024年第18卷第4期

页      面：5-15页

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学科分类：0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 07[理学] 070602[理学-大气物理学与大气环境] 0706[理学-大气科学] 

基　　金：the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.71921003 and 72222012) the Jiangsu R&D Special Fund for Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality(No.BK20220014) the Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation(No.BK20220125) Dr.Jianxun Yang acknowledges supports from the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talent(No.BX20230159) the Yuxiu Young Scholar Postdoc Fellowship granted by Nanjing University Future Earth Early Career Fellowship granted by Future Earth Global Secretariat Hub-China 

主　　题：Air pollution Attention Disengagement Performance Event-related potential 

摘      要：Awareness of the adverse impact of air pollution on attention-related performance such as learning and driving is rapidly ***,there is still little known about the underlying neurocognitive *** an adapted dot-probe task paradigm and event-related potential(ERP)technique,we investigated how visual stimuli of air pollution influence the attentional allocation *** were required to make responses to the onset of a target presented at the left or right visual *** probable location of the target was forewarned by a cue(pollution or clean air images),appearing at either the target location(attention-holding trials)or the opposite location(attention-shifting trials).Behavioral measures showed that when cued by pollution images,subjects had higher response accuracy in attention-shifting *** analysis results revealed that after the cue onset,pollution images evoked lower N300 amplitudes,indicating less attentioncapturing effects of dirty *** the target onset,pollution cues were correlated with the higher P300 amplitudes in attention-holding trials but lower amplitudes in attention-shifting *** indicates that after visual exposure to air pollution,people need more neurocognitive resources to maintain attention but less effort to shift attention *** findings provide the first neuroscientific evidence for the distracting effect of air *** conclude with several practical implications and suggest the ERP technique as a promising tool to understand human responses to environmental stressors.