Dynamically orienting your own face facilitates the automatic attraction of attention

Authors: Liu, M., He, X., Rotsthein, P. and Sui, J.

Journal: Cognitive Neuroscience

Volume: 7

Issue: 1-4

Pages: 37-44

eISSN: 1758-8936

ISSN: 1758-8928

DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2015.1044428

Abstract:

We report two experiments showing that dynamically orienting our own face facilitates the automatic attraction of attention. We had participants complete a cueing task where they had to judge the orientation of a lateralized target cued by a central face that dynamically changed its orientation. Experiment 1 showed a reliable cueing effect from both self- and friend-faces at a long stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA), however, the self-faces exclusively generated a spatial cueing effect at a short SOA. In Experiment 2, event-related potential (ERP) data to the face cues showed larger amplitudes in the N1 component for self-faces relative to friend- and unfamiliar-faces. In contrast, the amplitude of the P3 component was reduced for self compared with friend- and unfamiliar-other cues. The size of the self-bias effect in N1 correlated with the strength of self-biases in P3. The results indicate that dynamic changes in the orientation of one’s own face can provide a strong ecological cue for attention, enhancing sensory responses (N1) and reducing any subsequent uncertainty (P3) in decision-making.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/22608/

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Dynamically orienting your own face facilitates the automatic attraction of attention.

Authors: Liu, M., He, X., Rotsthein, P. and Sui, J.

Journal: Cogn Neurosci

Volume: 7

Issue: 1-4

Pages: 37-44

eISSN: 1758-8936

DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2015.1044428

Abstract:

We report two experiments showing that dynamically orienting our own face facilitates the automatic attraction of attention. We had participants complete a cueing task where they had to judge the orientation of a lateralized target cued by a central face that dynamically changed its orientation. Experiment 1 showed a reliable cueing effect from both self- and friend-faces at a long stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA), however, the self-faces exclusively generated a spatial cueing effect at a short SOA. In Experiment 2, event-related potential (ERP) data to the face cues showed larger amplitudes in the N1 component for self-faces relative to friend- and unfamiliar-faces. In contrast, the amplitude of the P3 component was reduced for self compared with friend- and unfamiliar-other cues. The size of the self-bias effect in N1 correlated with the strength of self-biases in P3. The results indicate that dynamic changes in the orientation of one's own face can provide a strong ecological cue for attention, enhancing sensory responses (N1) and reducing any subsequent uncertainty (P3) in decision-making.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/22608/

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Dynamically orienting your own face facilitates the automatic attraction of attention

Authors: Liu, M., He, X., Rotsthein, P. and Sui, J.

Journal: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Volume: 7

Issue: 1-4

Pages: 37-44

eISSN: 1758-8936

ISSN: 1758-8928

DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2015.1044428

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/22608/

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Dynamically orienting your own face facilitates the automatic attraction of attention

Authors: Liu, M., He, X., Rotsthein, P. and Sui, J.

Journal: Cognitive Neuroscience

Volume: 7

Issue: 1-4

Pages: 37-44

eISSN: 1758-8936

ISSN: 1758-8928

DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2015.1044428

Abstract:

© 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis.We report two experiments showing that dynamically orienting our own face facilitates the automatic attraction of attention. We had participants complete a cueing task where they had to judge the orientation of a lateralized target cued by a central face that dynamically changed its orientation. Experiment 1 showed a reliable cueing effect from both self- and friend-faces at a long stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA), however, the self-faces exclusively generated a spatial cueing effect at a short SOA. In Experiment 2, event-related potential (ERP) data to the face cues showed larger amplitudes in the N1 component for self-faces relative to friend- and unfamiliar-faces. In contrast, the amplitude of the P3 component was reduced for self compared with friend- and unfamiliar-other cues. The size of the self-bias effect in N1 correlated with the strength of self-biases in P3. The results indicate that dynamic changes in the orientation of one’s own face can provide a strong ecological cue for attention, enhancing sensory responses (N1) and reducing any subsequent uncertainty (P3) in decision-making.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/22608/

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Dynamically orienting your own face facilitates the automatic attraction of attention.

Authors: Liu, M., He, X., Rotsthein, P. and Sui, J.

Journal: Cognitive neuroscience

Volume: 7

Issue: 1-4

Pages: 37-44

eISSN: 1758-8936

ISSN: 1758-8928

DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2015.1044428

Abstract:

We report two experiments showing that dynamically orienting our own face facilitates the automatic attraction of attention. We had participants complete a cueing task where they had to judge the orientation of a lateralized target cued by a central face that dynamically changed its orientation. Experiment 1 showed a reliable cueing effect from both self- and friend-faces at a long stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA), however, the self-faces exclusively generated a spatial cueing effect at a short SOA. In Experiment 2, event-related potential (ERP) data to the face cues showed larger amplitudes in the N1 component for self-faces relative to friend- and unfamiliar-faces. In contrast, the amplitude of the P3 component was reduced for self compared with friend- and unfamiliar-other cues. The size of the self-bias effect in N1 correlated with the strength of self-biases in P3. The results indicate that dynamic changes in the orientation of one's own face can provide a strong ecological cue for attention, enhancing sensory responses (N1) and reducing any subsequent uncertainty (P3) in decision-making.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/22608/

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Dynamically orienting your own face facilitates the automatic attraction of attention

Authors: Liu, M., He, X., Rotsthein, P. and Sui, J.

Journal: Cognitive Neuroscience

ISSN: 1758-8928

Abstract:

We report two experiments showing that dynamically orienting our own face facilitates the automatic attraction of attention. We had participants complete a cueing task where they had to judge the orientation of a lateralized target cued by a central face that dynamically changed its orientation. Experiment 1 showed a reliable cueing effect from both self- and friend-faces at a long stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA), however, the self-faces exclusively generated a spatial cueing effect at a short SOA. In Experiment 2, event-related potential (ERP) data to the face cues showed larger amplitudes in the N1 component for self-faces relative to friend- and unfamiliar-faces. In contrast, the amplitude of the P3 component was reduced for self compared with friend- and unfamiliar-other cues. The size of the self-bias effect in N1 correlated with the strength of self-biases in P3. The results indicate that dynamic changes in the orientation of one’s own face can provide a strong ecological cue for attention, enhancing sensory responses (N1) and reducing any subsequent uncertainty (P3) in decision-making.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/22608/

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