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Svensson, Saga, Golubickis, Marius, Johnson, Sam, Falben, Johanna and Macrae, Neil (2023) Self-relevance and the activation of attentional networks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76 (5). pp. 1120-1130. doi:10.1177/17470218221112238 ISSN 1747-0226.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221112238
Abstract
Recent theoretical accounts maintain that core components of attentional functioning are preferentially tuned to self-relevant information. Evidence in support of this viewpoint is equivocal, however, with research overly reliant on personally significant (i.e., familiar) stimulus inputs (e.g., faces, forenames) and a diverse range of methodologies. Addressing these limitations, here we utilized arbitrary items (i.e., geometric shapes) and administered the Attention Network Test (ANT) to establish the extent to which self-relevance (vs. friend-relevance) moderates the three subsystems of attentional functioning — alerting, orienting, and executive control. The results revealed that only executive control was sensitive to the meaning of the stimuli, such that conflict resolution was enhanced following the presentation of self-associated compared to friend-associated shapes (i.e., cues). Probing the origin of this effect, a further computational analysis (i.e., Shrinking Spotlight Diffusion Model analysis) indicated that self-relevance facilitated the narrowing of visual attention. These findings highlight when and how the personal significance of otherwise trivial material modulates attentional processing.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Social perception, Self-perception, Self-consciousness (Awareness), Human information processing, Social cognitive theory , Psychology, Experimental | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology | ||||||||
Publisher: | SAGE Publications | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1747-0226 | ||||||||
Official Date: | May 2023 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 76 | ||||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1120-1130 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/17470218221112238 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 5 August 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 5 August 2022 |
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