ArticleFrontiers in psychology2016
No Effect of Featural Attention on Body Size Aftereffects.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Perception of the non-dominant hand as larger after non-judgmental focus on its details.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Changes in the perceived size of the body following exposure to distorted self-body images.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- The effect of attention on body size adaptation and body dissatisfaction.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Editorial: Experimental Approaches to Body Image, Representation and Perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Over or Under? Mental Representations and the Paradox of Body Size Estimation.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The high-level basis of body adaptation.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
- Visual attention mediates the relationship between body satisfaction and susceptibility to the body size adaptation effect.PloS one · 2018Article
- Body size and shape misperception and visual adaptation: An overview of an emerging research paradigm.The Journal of international medical research · 2017Review
- Perceived face size in healthy adults.PloS one · 2017Article
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Abstract
Prolonged exposure to images of narrow bodies has been shown to induce a perceptual aftereffect, such that observers' point of subjective normality (PSN) for bodies shifts toward narrower bodies. The converse effect is shown for adaptation to wide bodies. In low-level stimuli, object attention (attention directed to the object) and spatial attention (attention directed to the location of the object) have been shown to increase the magnitude of visual aftereffects, while object-based attention enhances the adaptation effect in faces. It is not known whether featural attention (attention directed to a specific aspect of the object) affects the magnitude of adaptation effects in body stimuli. Here, we manipulate the attention of Caucasian observers to different featural information in body images, by asking them to rate the fatness or sex typicality of male and female bodies manipulated to appear fatter or thinner than average. PSNs for body fatness were taken at baseline and after adaptation, and a change in PSN (ΔPSN) was calculated. A body size adaptation effect was found, with observers who viewed fat bodies showing an increased PSN, and those exposed to thin bodies showing a reduced PSN. However, manipulations of featural attention to body fatness or sex typicality produced equivalent results, suggesting that featural attention may not affect the strength of the body size aftereffect.
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