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Reference : You do not find your own face faster; you just look at it longer


	Document type :	Scientific journals : Article
	Discipline(s) :	Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Theoretical & cognitive psychology
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/4884

Title :	You do not find your own face faster; you just look at it longer
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Devue, Christel [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychologie cognitive >]
	Van der Stigchel, Stefan [ > > ]
	Brédart, Serge [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychologie cognitive - Doyen de la Faculté de Psychologie et des sc. de l'éducation >]
	Theeuwes, Jan [ > > ]
Publication date :	Apr-2009
Journal title :	Cognition
Publisher :	Elsevier
Volume :	111
Issue/season :	1
Pages :	114-122
Audience :	International
ISSN :	0010-0277
City :	Amsterdam
Country :	The Netherlands
Keywords :	[en] Allocation of attention ; eye movement ; familiar faces ; self-face ; visual search ; visual attention
Abstract :	[en] Previous studies investigating the ability of high priority stimuli to grab attention reached contradictory outcomes. The present study used eye tracking to examine the effect of the presence of the self-face among other faces in a visual search task in which the face identity was task-irrelevant. We assessed whether the self-face (1) received prioritized selection (2) caused a difficulty to disengage attention, and (3) whether its status as target or distractor had a differential effect. We included another highly familiar face to control whether possible effects were self-face specific or could be explained by high familiarity. We found that the self-face interfered with the search task. This was not due to a prioritized processing but rather to a difficulty to disengage attention. Crucially, this effect seemed due to the self-face’s familiarity, as similar results were obtained with the other familiar face, and was modulated by the status of the face since it was stronger for targets than for distractors.
Funders :	Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (Communauté française de Belgique) - FNRS; NWO (Netherlands organization for Scientific Research)
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/4884
DOI :	10.1016/j.cognition.2009.01.003

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