ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review2021
That's me in the spotlight: Self-relevance modulates attentional breadth.
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- The self-relevant spotlight metaphor: Self-relevant targets diminish distractor-response-binding effects.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- Brief mindfulness-based meditation enhances the speed of learning following positive prediction errors.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 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
- You do you: susceptibility of temporal binding to self-relevance.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Self-Prioritization Reconsidered: Scrutinizing Three Claims.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2023Article
- Brain State Relays Self-Processing and Heartbeat-Evoked Cortical Responses.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Self-relevance and the activation of attentional networks.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2023Article
- Distracted to a fault: Attention, actions, and time perception.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
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Abstract
A core prediction of models of social-cognitive functioning is that attention is preferentially tuned to self-relevant material. Surprisingly, however, evidence in support of this viewpoint is scant. Remedying this situation, here we demonstrated that self-relevance influences the distribution of attentional resources during decisional processing. In a flanker task (N = 60), participants reported if to-be-judged stimuli either denoted, or were owned by, the self or a friend. A consistent pattern of results emerged across both judgment tasks. Whereas the identification of friend-related targets was speeded when the items were flanked by compatible compared with incompatible flankers, responses to self-related targets were resistant to flanker interference. Probing the origin of these effects, a further computational analysis (i.e., Shrinking Spotlight Diffusion Model analysis) confirmed that self-relevance impacted the focusing of attention during decision-making. These findings highlight how self-relevance modulates attentional processing.
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