ArticleAttention, perception & psychophysics2021
On stopping yourself: Self-relevance facilitates response inhibition.
Article in Attention, perception & psychophysics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Reward value shapes the time course of self-bias.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- Working memory capacity and self-cues: Consistent benefits in children and adults.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2025Article
- The self-relevant spotlight metaphor: Self-relevant targets diminish distractor-response-binding effects.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- The Self-Reference Effect in Metamemory and the Role of Beliefs in This Process.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Causal Roles of Ventral and Dorsal Neural Systems for Automatic and Control Self-Reference Processing: A Function Lesion Mapping Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Self-relevance and the activation of attentional networks.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2023Article
- Time is of the essence: past selves are not prioritized even when selective discrimination costs are controlled for.Psychological research · 2023Article
- More than skin deep: about the influence of self-relevant avatars on inhibitory control.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2022Article
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Abstract
It is well documented that stimuli associated with the self are easier to process than identical material paired with other people (i.e., self-prioritization effect). Surprisingly, however, relatively little is known about how self-relevance impacts core aspects of executive functioning, notably response inhibition. Accordingly, here we used a stop-signal task to establish how effectively responses toward self-relevant (vs. other-relevant) stimuli can intentionally be inhibited. In the context of personal possession, participants were required to classify stimuli (i.e., pens and pencils) based on ownership (i.e., owned-by-self vs. owned-by-friend/stranger), unless an occasional auditory tone indicated that the response should be withheld. The results revealed the benefits of self-relevance on response inhibition. Compared with items owned by a friend or stranger, responses to self-owned objects were inhibited more efficiently. These findings confirm that self-relevance facilitates executive control.
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