A short-lived face alert during inhibition of return

In the present study, we explored the role of faces in oculomotor inhibition of return (IOR) using a tightly controlled spatial cuing paradigm. We measured saccadic response latency to targets following peripheral cues that were either faces or objects of lesser sociobiological salience. A recurring...

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Published in:Attention, perception & psychophysics perception & psychophysics, 2012-04, Vol.74 (3), p.510-520
Main Authors: Weaver, Matthew D., Aronsen, Dane, Lauwereyns, Johan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Attention
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive Psychology
Cues
Evidence
Eye Movements
Face
Feedback (Response)
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Inhibition
Inhibition (Psychology)
Logical Thinking
Male
Medical imaging
Nonverbal communication
Orientation
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Perception
Prompting
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reaction Time
Saccades
Semantics
Sensory perception
Social Facilitation
Stimuli
Vision
Young Adult
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Summary:In the present study, we explored the role of faces in oculomotor inhibition of return (IOR) using a tightly controlled spatial cuing paradigm. We measured saccadic response latency to targets following peripheral cues that were either faces or objects of lesser sociobiological salience. A recurring influence from cue content was observed across numerous methodological variations. Faces versus other object cues briefly reduced saccade latencies toward subsequently presented targets, independently of attentional allocation and IOR. The results suggest a short-lived priming effect or social facilitation effect from the mere presence of a face. In the present study, we further showed that saccadic responses were unaffected by face versus nonface objects in double-cue presentations. Our findings indicate that peripheral face cues do not influence attentional orienting processes involved in IOR any differently from other objects in a tightly controlled oculomotor IOR paradigm.
ISSN:1943-3921
1943-393X
DOI:10.3758/s13414-011-0258-8