That’s me in the spotlight: Self-relevance modulates attentional breadth
| Autor: | C. Neil Macrae, Marius Golubickis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Self
05 social sciences Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Developmental and Educational Psychology Relevance (law) Visual attention 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Computational analysis Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 28:1915-1922 |
| ISSN: | 1531-5320 1069-9384 |
| Popis: | A core prediction of models of social-cognitive functioning is that attention is preferentially tuned to self-relevant material. Surprisingly, however, evidence in support of this viewpoint is scant. Remedying this situation, here we demonstrated that self-relevance influences the distribution of attentional resources during decisional processing. In a flanker task (N = 60), participants reported if to-be-judged stimuli either denoted, or were owned by, the self or a friend. A consistent pattern of results emerged across both judgment tasks. Whereas the identification of friend-related targets was speeded when the items were flanked by compatible compared with incompatible flankers, responses to self-related targets were resistant to flanker interference. Probing the origin of these effects, a further computational analysis (i.e., Shrinking Spotlight Diffusion Model analysis) confirmed that self-relevance impacted the focusing of attention during decision-making. These findings highlight how self-relevance modulates attentional processing. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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