Abstract:The present study aimed to determine what kind of face and which area of the face (eyes or mouth) rapidly capture attention among patients with dentomaxillofacial deformities (DDs). In the present experiments, faces were categorized as highly or lowly attractive (HA and LA, respectively) and as a face with dentomaxillofacial deformities (DD face). A dot‐probe task and a change‐detection task were utilized to examine the attentional bias to the faces and facial features, respectively. In Study 1, we found that … Show more
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