ReviewCognitive neuroscience
Attentional control and the self: The Self-Attention Network (SAN).
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114 citing papers in PubMed, 296 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Stimulation of the Social Brain Improves Perspective Selection in Older Adults: A HD-tDCS Study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2021Trial
- Merely presenting one's own name along with target items is insufficient to produce a memory advantage for the items: A critical role of relational processing.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2019Trial
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- Self-relevance dynamically biases exploration and exploitation in value-based decisions.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Beyond the unitary self: Behavioral and drift-diffusion modeling evidence for a true self-prioritization effect and intra-self competition.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- The Attentional Orientation and Disengagement Mechanisms in Non-Target Processing of Self-Related Information and the Modulating Effect of Attentional Window.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Self-face recognition under self-implicating threat: preserved self-prioritization and recalibrated control dynamics.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2026Article
- Self-Relevance Attenuates Emotion-Induced Blindness Across Individual, Relational, and Collective Levels.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The role of working memory in encoding the temporal structure of events in episodic memory: Evidence from a dual-task paradigm.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- Contextual cueing and attention control: Self-face vs. stranger-face search.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- The Effects of Hearing One's Own Name on Subsequent Attention to Visual Stimuli in Autistic and Neurotypical Children: An ERP Study.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
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- It's Probably Mine: Self-Prioritization Can Be a Decisional Strategy.Cognitive science · 2026Article
- Reward value shapes the time course of self-bias.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- We are what we eat: Cross-cultural self-prioritization effects for food stimuli.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2026Article
- Biases in cultural transmission of information about a minimal ingroup.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Neural Compensation in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex Preserves Self-Prioritization in Aging: A Computational Approach.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Why do self-referent cues facilitate mathematical word problem-solving? Insights from eye tracking.PloS one · 2026Article
- Early correlates of visual awareness are affected by self-related information.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
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Abstract
Although there is strong evidence that human decision-making is frequently self-biased, it remains unclear whether self-biases mediate attention. Here we review evidence on the relations between self-bias effects in decision-making and attention. We ask: Does self-related information capture attention? Do self-biases modulate pre-attentive processes or do they depend on attentional resources being available? We review work on (1) own-name effects, (2) own-face effects, and (3) self-biases in associative matching. We argue that self-related information does have a differential impact on the allocation of attention and that it can alter the saliency of a stimulus in a manner that mimics the effects of perceptual-saliency. However, there is also evidence that self-biases depend on the availability of attentional resources and attentional expectancies for upcoming stimuli. We propose a new processing framework, the Self-Attention Network (SAN), in which neural circuits responding to self-related stimuli interact with circuits supporting attentional control, to determine our emergent behavior. We also discuss how these-bias effects may extend beyond the self to be modulated by the broader social context-for example, by cultural experience, by an in-group as opposed to an out-group stimulus, and by whether we are engaged in joint actions. Self-biases on attention are modulated by social context.
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