Abstract:In real life, people perceive non-existent faces from face-like objects, called face pareidolia. Face-like objects can capture the observer’s visual attention and trigger attentional shifts like faces. However, studies do not determine whether attentional shifts induced by face-like objects are stemmed from social or symbolic information. Furthermore, the similarities and differences in the occurrence mechanism of attentional shifts induced by face and face-like objects remain unknown. To investigate this rese… Show more
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