Commentary: Attentional control and the self: The Self-Attention Network (SAN)

García, Adolfo M.; Huepe, David; martinez, David; Morales, Juan P.; Huepe, Daniela; Hurtado, Esteban; Calvo, Noelia; Ibáñez, Agustín

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01726

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“…Taken together, the contrasting behavioral effects between attending-to-others and attending-to-self seem to dispute the simplified view that resources of attention in social contexts are oriented merely toward others (Klein et al, 2009 ) or are anchored exclusively to self-related representations (Humphreys and Sui, 2015 ). Instead, attention in social contexts is a dynamic behavioral and cognitive process that could be flexibly employed to enhance any behaviorally salient stimuli ranging from the self to the others, depending on specific social contexts.…”

Section: Behavioral Evidence Of Polarized Social Attentionmentioning

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“…In parallel to the above attending-to-others and other-centered perspective, attending to the bodily self is also of survival importance in our daily life. Self-related stimuli such as one's own name and face are arguably the most familiar and critical information for us and, consequently, they have processing advantages and can also capture our attention without awareness (Humphreys and Sui, 2015 ). Increasing evidence has indicated that perception and attention are biased toward self-related stimuli.…”

Section: Behavioral Evidence Of Polarized Social Attentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As such, similar to the general attention systems (Corbetta and Shulman, 2002 ; Bisley and Goldberg, 2010 ), social attention can also be flexibly oriented according to a context-contingent saliency map. Ultimately, the saliency map of social attention will be integrated with the general attention control systems to guide our perception and action (Humphreys and Sui, 2015 ).…”

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Two Polarities of Attention in Social Contexts: From Attending-to-Others to Attending-to-Self

Kuang

2016

Front. Psychol.

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Social attention is one special form of attention that involves the allocation of limited processing resources in a social context. Previous studies on social attention often regard how attention is directed toward socially relevant stimuli such as faces and gaze directions of other individuals. In contrast to attending-to-others, a different line of researches has shown that self-related information such as own face and name automatically captures attention and is preferentially processed comparing to other-related information. These contrasting behavioral effects between attending-to-others and attending-to-self prompt me to consider a synthetic viewpoint for understanding social attention. I propose that social attention operates at two polarizing states: In one extreme, individual tends to attend to the self and prioritize self-related information over others', and, in the other extreme, attention is allocated to other individuals to infer their intentions and desires. Attending-to-self and attending-to-others mark the two ends of an otherwise continuum spectrum of social attention. For a given behavioral context, the mechanisms underlying these two polarities will interact and compete with each other in order to determine a saliency map of social attention that guides our behaviors. An imbalanced competition between these two behavioral and cognitive processes will cause cognitive disorders and neurological symptoms such as autism spectrum disorders and Williams syndrome. I have reviewed both behavioral and neural evidence that support the notion of polarized social attention, and have suggested several testable predictions to corroborate this integrative theory for understanding social attention.

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Section: Behavioral Evidence Of Polarized Social Attentionmentioning

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Section: Behavioral Evidence Of Polarized Social Attentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Behavioral Evidence Of Polarized Social Attentionmentioning

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Two Polarities of Attention in Social Contexts: From Attending-to-Others to Attending-to-Self

Kuang

2016

Front. Psychol.

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“…As others have noted, however, it is questionable whether self-bias can be attributed to the operation of specialized operations in a dedicated neuroanatomical network (Gillihan & Farah, 2005; Greenwald & Banaji, 1989). In particular, the claim that self-specific information is supported by a dedicated hub, housed in the vMPFC, lacks functional specificity (García et al, 2015). Extensive research has shown that this cortical region is engaged during a wide range of tasks, including (but not limited to) decision-making, emotion regulation, memory retrieval, and learning (Hiser & Koenigs, 2018).…”

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Self-Prioritization Reconsidered: Scrutinizing Three Claims

Golubickis

Macrae

2022

Perspect Psychol Sci

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Such is the power of self-relevance, it has been argued that even arbitrary stimuli (e.g., shapes, lines, colors) with no prior personal connection are privileged during information processing following their association with the self (i.e., self-prioritization). This prioritization effect, moreover, is deemed to be stimulus driven (i.e., automatic), grounded in perception, and supported by specialized processing operations. Here, however, we scrutinize these claims and challenge this viewpoint. Although self-relevance unquestionably influences information processing, we contend that, at least at present, there is limited evidence to suggest that the prioritization of arbitrary self-related stimuli is compulsory, penetrates perception, and is underpinned by activity in a dedicated neural network. Rather, self-prioritization appears to be a task-dependent product of ordinary cognitive processes.

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Commentary: Attentional control and the self: The Self-Attention Network (SAN)

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Two Polarities of Attention in Social Contexts: From Attending-to-Others to Attending-to-Self

Two Polarities of Attention in Social Contexts: From Attending-to-Others to Attending-to-Self

Self-Prioritization Reconsidered: Scrutinizing Three Claims

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