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Self-face does not capture attention: an inattentional blindness study
Devue, Christel; Laloyaux, Cédric; Feyers, Dorothée et al.
2006Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences
 

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Keywords :
self face recognition; face perception; selective attention; inatentionnal blindness; face detection
Abstract :
[en] It has been shown previously that some categories of stimuli are more likely to capture attention under condition of inattention compared to others. This is the case of faces and auto-referential material (e.g., the subject’s own name) in the inattentional blindness paradigm (Mack & Rock, 1998). However, stimuli combining these two properties have never been assessed. Yet it could be that the own face, because it is both a face and a self-referential stimulus, is more prone to attract attention compared to other faces. On the contrary, it could be that the identity and the familiarity of faces are not relevant factors because any face attracts attention by itself and all faces are equally distractive. Moreover, most of previous studies have used schematic unrealistic stimuli. Here, we tested these two opposite hypotheses in a first experiment using photographic stimuli and results showed that the own face does not attract attention compared to another highly familiar face or to an unknown face. Nevertheless, it appears that the own face was still better recognized compared to the others. A second experiment was aimed at verifying whether faces attract attention more than other objects with the same realistic photographic stimuli than used in experiment 1. Results confirmed previous findings that faces are more resistant to inattentional blindness than other objects. Our study suggests that a face by itself attracts attention compared to other objects whatever its familiarity or its identity. These results challenge the view that auto-referential material benefits from specific attentional processes.
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Devue, Christel ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychologie cognitive
Laloyaux, Cédric ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychologie clinique cognitive et comportementale
Feyers, Dorothée ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Neuroimagerie des troubles de la mémoire et révalid. cogn.
Brédart, Serge ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychologie cognitive
Language :
English
Title :
Self-face does not capture attention: an inattentional blindness study
Publication date :
2006
Event name :
Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences
Event place :
Liège, Belgium
Funders :
FRFC - Fonds de la Recherche Fondamentale Collective [BE]
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