The cognitive advantage for one’s own name is not simply familiarity: An eye-tracking study

Yang, Hongsheng; Fang, Wang; Gu, Nianjun; Gao, Xiao; Zhao, Guang

doi:10.3758/s13423-013-0426-z

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“…Like Yang et al (2013), reported more efficient visual search for own-name relative to other name targets, but, perhaps more crucially, search never became so efficient that targets could be said to 'pop out'. That is, the own name advantage may depend on some attention being allocated to stimuli, as participants search a display.…”

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

Humphreys

Sui

2015

Cognitive Neuroscience

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Although there is strong evidence that human decision-making is frequently self-biased, it remains unclear whether self-biases mediate attention. Here we review evidence on the relations between self-bias effects in decision-making and attention. We ask: Does self-related information capture attention? Do self-biases modulate pre-attentive processes or do they depend on attentional resources being available? We review work on (1) own-name effects, (2) own-face effects, and (3) self-biases in associative matching. We argue that self-related information does have a differential impact on the allocation of attention and that it can alter the saliency of a stimulus in a manner that mimics the effects of perceptual-saliency. However, there is also evidence that self-biases depend on the availability of attentional resources and attentional expectancies for upcoming stimuli. We propose a new processing framework, the Self-Attention Network (SAN), in which neural circuits responding to self-related stimuli interact with circuits supporting attentional control, to determine our emergent behavior. We also discuss how these-bias effects may extend beyond the self to be modulated by the broader social context-for example, by cultural experience, by an in-group as opposed to an out-group stimulus, and by whether we are engaged in joint actions. Self-biases on attention are modulated by social context.

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“…In addition, own-names are less subject to 'inattentional blindness' 2 (Mack & Rock, 1998) and to 'repetition blindness' 3 (Arnell, Shapiro & Sorenson, 1999). Yang et al (2013) have also reported that, in visual search, participants fixate earlier and make fewer saccades when the target is their own name compared with the names of others.…”

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

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2015

Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…杨佳欣 1 ，刘岩 1,2 ，杨艳 1 ，贾培媛 1 ，周璐 1 ，高阳 1 (Conway, Cowan & Bunting, 2001；Harris, Pashler & Coburn, 2004；Harris & Pashler, 2004；Yang, Wang, Gu, Gao & Zhao, 2013；孙晓，李肖，贾磊，张庆林，2013)。具体表现为：自我姓名能够被更快更准确地探测出来 Yang et al, 2013) 杨红升, 黄希庭(2007). 自我信息加工的独特性: 来自人名识别研究的证据.…”

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The Effects of Familiarity and Self-Relevance on the Visual Search of Screen Names

佳欣¹

2014

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The present study used a series of visual search experiments to explore the reason of the cognitive priority of screen names and mainly focused on the possible effects of the familiarity and self-relevance. In experiment 1, the participants were divided into two groups (high-frequency vs. lowfrequency) according to the usage frequency of their own screen names. The results showed that the performances for own screen-name in both groups were significantly better than any other materials, while no significant difference was found between the high-frequency and low-frequency group. Experiment 2 and 3 were one-way within-subjects design. Experiment 2 aimed to explore the effect of familiarity on the visual search task by comparing the performance of famous names and that of general screen names. Experiment 3 explored the effect of familiarity on the screen name recognition by directly comparing the visual search performance between the two different usage frequency screen names. Results showed that famous names were detected more accurately and quickly than general screen names, while there were no significant differences between the two screen names. In conclusion, the present research confirmed the cognitive priority of self-related screen names, and found the vital role of self-relevance on the visual search of screen names. Moreover it also suggested that the familiarity might not be the key factor for the processing priority although it had an effect on the visual search.

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“…One’s own name is a powerful cue for attention: it is more easily perceived as a target and it causes more interference as a distractor (for reviews, see Breska et al, 2011; Humphreys and Sui, 2016). However, it seems that one’s own name gains cognitive priority only when it is presented within the focus of attention or when the participant is set to process it (Gronau et al, 2003; Kawahara and Yamada, 2004; Breska et al, 2011; Yang et al, 2013, but see Alexopoulos et al, 2012). …”

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A Self-Reference Effect on Memory for People: We Are Particularly Good at Retrieving People Named Like Us

Brédart

2016

Front. Psychol.

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In the present study, it was evaluated whether one’s own name may produce a self-reference bias in memory for people. Results from Experiment 1 indicated that, in a verbal fluency task, participants recalled a greater number of known (familiar or famous) people with the same first name as their own than did paired participants, and vice versa. In the first experiment, paired participants knew each other but were not close. Experiment 2 examined whether this self-reference effect would still occur when the comparison target was a close other. This experiment showed that such a self-reference bias also occurred even when the paired persons were close (partners or very good friends). Overall the present paper describes a new naturalistic case of the self-reference effect.

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The cognitive advantage for one’s own name is not simply familiarity: An eye-tracking study

Cited by 42 publications

References 28 publications

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

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

The Effects of Familiarity and Self-Relevance on the Visual Search of Screen Names

A Self-Reference Effect on Memory for People: We Are Particularly Good at Retrieving People Named Like Us

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