Attention allocation towards own face is pronounced during middle adolescence: an eye‐tracking study

Doi, Hiroyuki; Shinohara, Kazuyuki

doi:10.1111/desc.12490

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“…There are several explanations for this null result. First, our previous study (Doi and Shinohara, 2018) has shown that male young Japanese do not show clear attentional prioritization of self face over other’s face after mid-adolescence. Taking into consideration the previous finding indicating that developmental change of face processing continues into late adulthood (Anastasi and Rhodes, 2005; Boutet et al, 2015), we might get a different picture if, we recruit younger or older population.…”

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Low Salivary Testosterone Level Is Associated With Efficient Attention Holding by Self Face in Women

Doi

Shinohara

2019

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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Capacity to recognize one’s own face (hereinafter referred to as self face) is a fundamental component of various domains of social cognition such as empathy in humans. Previous research has demonstrated that a high level of androgen suppresses empathic behavior and social brain function. Taking these into consideration, we hypothesized that people with high androgen level show reduced response to self face. The present study examined this hypothesis by investigating the association between attentiveness towards self face, as assessed by a psychophysiological experiment, and salivary testosterone concentration. The attentional responses to self face was measured by a modified Go/NoGo task. In this task, self face or unfamiliar other’s face was presented simultaneously with Go or NoGo signal. In go trials, participants had to divert their attention from the face to a peripheral target. The reaction time (RT) for peripheral target detection in each condition was measured. In addition to behavioral data, saliva samples were collected to assay salivary testosterone concentration. The index of potency of self face to hold viewer’s attention that was computed based on RT data was regressed against salivary testosterone concentration in men and women separately. The analyses revealed that self face holds visuospatial attention more effectively in women with low than high salivary testosterone level, but no such trend was observed in men. This pattern of results indicates that low testosterone level is associated with a pronounced response to self face as we hypothesized and raises the possibility that multiple aspects of self-face processing are under the influence of endocrinological function.

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Low Salivary Testosterone Level Is Associated With Efficient Attention Holding by Self Face in Women

Doi

Shinohara

2019

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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“…Although we created three conditions and randomized (with some constraints) the positions of the distractors and the order in which we presented the matrices in our experiment, many other stimuli and procedures could have been used. Using an eye-tracking system does not preclude displaying two items [54], three items [55], or even five or more items. Thus, further studies are needed to ensure our findings concern recognition in general and are not specific to the format of our stimuli.…”

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The Battle between the Correct and Mirror Writings of a Digit in Children’s Recognition Memory

Fischer

Luxembourger

2020

Education Sciences

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Recent research into character reversals in writings produced by occidental children has shown that they mainly reverse the left-oriented digits (1, 2, 3, 7, and 9) and therefore appear to apply a right-orienting rule. But do they produce similar reversal errors when asked to recognize the digits? In an experiment, based on eye-tracking observations of 50 children (Mage = 5.4 years), children had to point towards a target digit in a 2 × 2 matrix also containing three distractor digits, one of which was the mirror-reversed writing of the correctly written target digit. This recognition task led to a true “battle” in children’s memory between the two writings of the target digit. This battle is shown in the graphical abstract that represents a heat map from a sub-sample of children (on the left side) and the fixation points map from an individual child (on the right side). Rather than following the predicted right-orienting rule, the children’s responses appeared to be biased towards digits in the right-hand column of the 2 × 2 matrices (when the reversed target digit was not in the same column as the correctly written target digit). As a whole, these findings support the hypotheses that many 4- to 6-year-old’s representations of the digit writings are unoriented in their memory and that these children may adopt different solutions to overcome this lack of orientation depending on whether they write or read.

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“…With respect to social integration, adolescents detach from their parents and are more susceptible to peer influence (Parker et al., 2006) and the potential experience of rejection, exclusion, or bullying in school (Carlyle & Steinman, 2007; Juvonen & Gross, 2008; Pontes, Ayres, Lewandowski, & Pontes, 2018). Regarding self-esteem, adolescents show an increased self-consciousness and self-conflict (Doi & Shinohara, 2018; Parker et al., 2006), and self-esteem is considerably lower during this stage of life than in later life (Morin et al., 2017; Morin, Maiano, Marsh, Nagengast, & Janosz, 2013; Orth & Robins, 2014; Sanchez-Queija, Oliva, & Parra, 2017). With respect to well-being, studies show the emergence of diverse mental and physical problems in adolescence (Collishaw, 2015; Kessler et al., 2005; Merikangas et al., 2010).…”

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Self-Esteem as a Potential Mediator of the Association Between Social Integration, Mental Well-Being, and Physical Well-Being

Schwager

Wick²,

Glaeser

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Psychol Rep

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Previous research points to a significant impact of social integration and self-esteem on well-being. The present study examined whether self-esteem constitutes one pathway from social integration in the classroom to mental and physical well-being of students and accordingly serves as a mediator. Therefore, 163 students (mean age: 12.98 years, age range: 9–17 years, 57.9% male) of three German secondary schools were examined regarding their experience of social integration, self-esteem, and mental as well as physical well-being. Results revealed that self-esteem mediated the effect of social integration on mental and physical well-being. This finding elucidates one pathway from social integration to well-being and points to the importance of improving both self-esteem and social integration for the promotion of well-being among adolescents.

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Attention allocation towards own face is pronounced during middle adolescence: an eye‐tracking study

Cited by 4 publications

References 91 publications

Low Salivary Testosterone Level Is Associated With Efficient Attention Holding by Self Face in Women

Low Salivary Testosterone Level Is Associated With Efficient Attention Holding by Self Face in Women

The Battle between the Correct and Mirror Writings of a Digit in Children’s Recognition Memory

Self-Esteem as a Potential Mediator of the Association Between Social Integration, Mental Well-Being, and Physical Well-Being

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