Table 1.
Means and standard deviations of subjective rating scores on the images.
Figure 1.
Mean scores and times to complete the operation task (Experiment 1).
Participants performed the task before and after viewing images of baby and adult animals (n = 24 each). The error bars indicate the standard errors of means.
Figure 2.
Examples of task stimuli used in Experiments 2 (A) and 3 (B).
A: Participants searched a matrix for the designated digit shown on the left side of each matrix and to state the number of counts vocally. The answers are 2 (upper) and 3 (bottom). B: Participants indicated whether a stimulus contained the letter H or the letter T by pressing the left or right key on a response pad. The upper is a global target stimulus and the bottom is a local target stimulus.
Figure 3.
Mean numbers of correct trials in the visual search task (Experiment 2).
Participants performed the task before and after viewing images of baby animals, adult animals, and pleasant foods (n = 16 each). The error bars indicate the standard errors of means.
Figure 4.
Mean reaction times in the global–local letter task (Experiment 3).
Participants performed the task in three blocks during which images of baby animals, adult animals, and neutral objects were presented every eight trials (N = 36). The error bars indicate the standard errors of means.