Do I have my attention? Speed of processing advantages for the self-face are not driven by automatic attention capture.

ABSTRACT: We respond more quickly to our own face than to other faces, but there is debate over whether this is connected to attention-grabbing properties of the self-face. In two experiments, we investigate whether the self-face selectively captures attention, and the attentional conditions under which this might occur. In both experiments, we examined whether different types of face (self, friend, stranger) provide differential levels of distraction when processing self, friend and stranger names. In Experiment 1, an image of a distractor face appeared centrally - inside the focus of attention - behind a target name, with the faces either upright or inverted. In Experiment 2, distractor faces appeared peripherally - outside the focus of attention - in the left or right visual field, or bilaterally

SUBMITTER: Keyes H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4206440 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature