{"pk":26223,"title":"Spatial Attention to Social Cues is not a Monolithic Process","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Social stimuli are a highly salient source of information, and\nseem to possess unique qualities that set them apart from\nother well-known categories. One characteristic is their ability\nto elicit spatial orienting, whereby directional stimuli like eye-\ngaze and pointing gestures act as exogenous cues that trigger\nautomatic shifts of attention that are difficult to inhibit. This\neffect has been extended to non-social stimuli, like arrows,\nleading to some uncertainty regarding whether spatial\norienting is specialized for social cues. Using a standard\nspatial cueing paradigm, we found evidence that both a\npointing hand and arrow are effective cues, but that the hand\nis encoded more quickly, leading to overall faster responses.\nWe then extended the paradigm to include multiple cues in\norder to evaluate congruent vs. incongruent cues. Our results\nindicate that faster encoding of the social cue leads to\ndownstream effects on the allocation of attention resulting in\nfaster orienting.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"social cues; spatial cueing; selective attention;\nreflexive orienting; exogenous and endogenous attention"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8f6509tt","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Samuel","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"Harding","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University Bloomington","department":""},{"first_name":"Ty","middle_name":"W.","last_name":"Boyer","name_suffix":"","institution":"Georgia Southern University","department":""},{"first_name":"Bennett","middle_name":"I.","last_name":"Bertenthal","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University Bloomington","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26223/galley/15859/download/"}]}