I, me, mine: Automatic attentional capture by self‐related stimuli

Alexopoulos, Théodore; Michelet, Dominique; Ric, François; Marendaz, Christian

doi:10.1002/ejsp.1882

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“…A dimension to identify important information is selfrelevance. Consequently, self-relevant content allocates attention automatically (Alexopoulos, Muller, Ric, & Marendaz, 2012) and is prioritized against non-self-relevant stimuli (Bargh, 1982;Gray, Ambady, & Lowent, 2004). …”

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About the composition of self-relevance: Conjunctions not features are bound to the self

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Sui and colleagues (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38, 1105Performance, 38, -1117Performance, 38, , 2012) introduced a matching paradigm to investigate prioritized processing of instructed self-relevance. They arbitrarily assigned simple geometric shapes to the participant and two other persons. Subsequently, the task was to judge whether label-shape pairings matched or not. The authors found a remarkable self-prioritization effect, that is, for matching selfrelated trials verification was very fast and accurate in comparison to the non-matching conditions. We analyzed whether single features or feature conjunctions are tagged to the self. In particular, we assigned colored shapes to the labels and included partial-matching trials (i.e., trials in which only one feature matched the label, whereas the other feature did not match the label). If single features are tagged to the self, partial matches would result in interference, whereas they should elicit the same data pattern as non-matching trials if only feature conjunctions are tagged to the self. Our data suggest the latter; only feature conjunctions are tagged to the self and are processed in a prioritized manner. This result emphasizes the functionality of self-relevance as a selection mechanism.

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“…Previous studies have proposed that cues with selfrelevant information are processed more effectively than those with other-relevant information with regard to spatial attention (Alexopoulos, Muller, Ric, & Marendaz, 2012;Hunger & Hunt, 2012). For instance, Hunger and Hunt (2012) showed that the effect of gaze cues on target detection increased for faces morphed on the basis of the participants' face.…”

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Target object moderation of attentional orienting by gazes or arrows

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Zhao

Uono

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Atten Percept Psychophys

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Recent studies have attempted to demonstrate the importance of the characteristics of directional cues and observers' traits in attentional orienting. This study investigated how attentional orienting is influenced by target processing. Two experiments showed the critical role played by target processing in attentional orienting that relies on eye-gaze and arrow cues. In Experiment 1, stronger attentional orienting was observed under the object-target condition compared with the scrambled-display condition, irrespective of whether gaze or arrow cues were used. The results indicated that meaningful targets produced stronger attentional orienting than did meaningless targets, regardless of the social characteristics of the target. Experiment 2, which investigated whether attentional orienting was influenced by differences in the meaningfulness of targets regardless of their perceptual features, used participants' own faces and the faces of others as target stimuli; one's own face is typically more meaningful than the face of another. The results showed stronger attentional orienting in response to one's own face than in response to another's face under both gaze and arrow conditions. These findings suggest that the use of task-irrelevant meaningful information as targets may be effective in enhancing attention, regardless of perceptual features.Keywords Attentional orienting . Gaze . Arrow . Meaningful information . Self-relevant informationIn our daily lives, we simultaneously encounter various types of information with features of varying levels of importance. Generally, the ability to focus on important information and inhibit attention to other information is vital. This process works rapidly and effectively if directional information is available in the environment. An extensive body of literature has demonstrated that humans automatically orient their attention in the direction of centrally presented cues, such as gazes and arrows. In these studies (for a review, see Birmingham & Kingstone, 2009), a central uninformative cue was used to direct attention toward the right or left of a screen, and a target was presented afterward at either the cued or the opposite location. The response times (RTs) to detect a target were faster if it appeared in the location congruent with the cue rather than in the opposite direction (i.e., cueing effect). The ability to process directional cues (e.g., a conspecific's gaze) rapidly provides an advantage for survival and would therefore be favored during the evolutionary process (Emery, 2000).The majority of studies have investigated how various types of directional cues (e.g., gazes and arrows) trigger Tianyi Yan and Shuo Zhao are first coauthors on this work.

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“…In the present study, we used a very long SOA of 3 s, following earlier eye-tracking studies (Calvo & Avero, 2005;Rohner, 2002). In contrast to this, the previous studies that found clear behavioral effects in the dot-probe paradigm used SOA ranging from 100 to 1500 ms (Alexopoulos, Muller, Ric & Marendaz, 2012;Bantin et al, 2016;Bradley et al, 1998;Mogg et al, 2004). Furthermore, event-related potential studies on own face processing showed a prominent effect of facial identity mostly before 1 s after the face presentation (Miyakoshi et al, 2008(Miyakoshi et al, , 2010Tacikowski & Nowicka, 2010).…”

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

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Shinohara

2016

Developmental Science

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Increased interest in the self has long been deemed to be one of the most peculiar characteristics of adolescence. On the basis of this, we conjectured that attentiveness towards self-relevant information, especially one's own face, becomes more pronounced during the middle adolescence. The present study tested this hypothesis by comparing the pattern of visuospatial attention allocation to their own face among early, middle and late adolescent males using an eye-tracking methodology. The results have shown a clear pattern of increased attention allocation towards their own face over a close friend's and a stranger's face in middle adolescents, but fixation durations on their own and a friend's face did not differ from each other in early and late adolescents. In addition, middle adolescents showed higher public self-consciousness and a lower level of self-esteem than early and late adolescents, respectively. These results indicate that attention allocation towards one's own face is more pronounced during middle adolescence, and is associated with increased interest in their own attributes.

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I, me, mine: Automatic attentional capture by self‐related stimuli

Cited by 122 publications

References 66 publications

About the composition of self-relevance: Conjunctions not features are bound to the self

About the composition of self-relevance: Conjunctions not features are bound to the self

Target object moderation of attentional orienting by gazes or arrows

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

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